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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:21:19 -0600
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>,
        Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>,
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Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system
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    [Alan Cox]
> > > 	find $TOPDIR -name "*.cf" -exec cat {} \; > Configure.help 

  [Horst von Brand]
> >      cat `find $TOPDIR -name "*.cf"` > Configure.help #;-)

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]
> whatever is faster, do you have trustable benchmark numbers? ;)

Fewer forks vs. increased parallelism ... depends on the nature of your
bottlenecks, I guess, and cold vs. hot cache.  Or you could have it
both ways:

	find $TOPDIR -name \*.cf | xargs -n10 cat > Configure.help

...where 10 is tuned by benchmarking. (:

> Yes, its a joke, have a nice 2002 all!

Yeah, same from me..

Peter
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