From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:22:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Horrible re-packing?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606051721180.24152@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20060605211436.GA58708@dspnet.fr.eu.org>

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Olivier Galibert wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:03:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Comments?
> 
> Why don't you just sort the full path+filename with a strcmp variant
> that starts by the end of the string for comparison?  May at least be
> simpler to understand.

Much more expensive for both memory usage and CPU cycles.


Nicolas