Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote: > > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > > > In the last patchset I mentioned the issue, that the prototype is > > > > slow as hell. I know some bottlenecks, but I have not even tried to > > > > change that, because this is no issue for the builtin. > > > > > > Why is it no issue for the builtin? Is it so much different from the > > > prototype? > > > > As Sverre pointed out and as my "experiments" tried to show: the builtin > > is just fast ;-) > > So why is it just so fast? Does it do things completely different than > the shell prototype you presented? Ah, that's the point of your question ;) No, it's different in some minor parts, of course, but the important thing is: it is C, not sh. That's what makes it faster. Regards. -- Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@xxxxxxx>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html