Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm also not entirely convinced it's worth caring about this problem at > all (whether the solution is buffering here, or just adding the "\n" > back to the original strings). It's true that p1451 shows off a > measurable improvement, but I think it's a silly, pathological case. I'd > be surprised if anybody ever noticed the difference in the real world. Yup, exactly my thought. > The biggest benefit I see to dealing with it is not performance, but > that it makes our messages more likely to appear atomically in the > output (if multiple entities are writing to stderr). I was primarily in favor of getting rid of *printf_ln() functions (there are some 200+ callsites if I counted correctly) as I found it a bit distracting.
