Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-lang/python: ChangeLog python-2.6.ebuild python-2.5.2-r6.ebuild

[Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>]

В Срд, 15/10/2008 в 20:51 +0100, Steve Long пишет:
> >> for ((i=0;i<100000;i++)); do echo /usr/share/doc/${P}/examples >
> >> /dev/null;
> > 
> >> real 11.25
> > 
> >> real 9.24
> > 
> > So that's what, on the order of 20 microseconds faster for each iteration?
> >
> Or ~18%. (You shouldn't use the first iteration in general, btw.)

Steve, your example only tests how much time bash takes to parse string.
It's obvious that in quoted strings some expansions could be avoided and
thus bash works faster. But although ebuilds use bash syntax they are
interpreted not only by bash - the time to parse stings is negligible to
other activities. I have not calculated but made a rough estimation
taking into account the number of ebuilds in the tree. So I think we
have of order of 10^6 string. This means that during merge of all
packages we'll win 10 seconds. I don't think it's worth to consider this
gain.

So in portage tree this is the matter of style. That's said, since
personally I don't have any preference on this style and until there
will be arguments not to use this style I'll start to use full quotation
of the strings.

And yes, in pure bash programs possibly this'll make sense.

-- 
Peter.