From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2C2138010 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:33:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3321621C01E; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:32:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f53.google.com (mail-wg0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6939721C01B for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbfm10 with SMTP id fm10so410739wgb.10 for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:29:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; bh=1Dnn7hHN9KN2BHhtZ7EP2gkg+juHFvPLRt5ws4wb5nY=; b=TKksQLQmsLtu8N8bPRfH9Qn5+qRbF+hRHvIP8LjR3jK5PjBTbxK5x3g0ctHgi+yiCS cwcCAUafDNnyT0vCFvFIXQAOQnHk/MTwCjNpcXVHq+BhIEgKe0QhKqjMO9jI/ETsupWN lfdfdfXNkEEw/3qpBAdqtop4gsbXy6ZUy9MJsWLeDi5yj0+DUcoHT8k6X8z264TtWUo4 dz0FlRx+FsvwKTB9Y3BOzE79vsZibYt7qFFQYYJI7qN/RWijRKgLVN2bGHWpn9O4c0Ki 8HxFjrbfagKY8kXHSTQaSdtjP8IeJoKGkJP6LN3VbXFf16Cv+laiIOeE72ptw3aDriqu Q6og== Received: by 10.216.93.6 with SMTP id k6mr14392447wef.86.1346844564599; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cpc13-broo7-2-0-cust130.14-2.cable.virginmedia.com. [82.9.16.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k2sm4004391wiz.7.2012.09.05.04.29.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:27:25 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] HDEPEND (host dependencies for cross-compilation) for EAPI 5? Message-ID: <20120905122725.15d16d77@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <50411874.4060204@gentoo.org> <20120831214611.088b3f50@googlemail.com> <50469795.2070901@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/AIrzp9+gqC99pCABQNfJ0cI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 053b874a-485c-40fd-8918-eacca9851de2 X-Archives-Hash: 875e9d38f7f6a219a763a3a8c4241209 --Sig_/AIrzp9+gqC99pCABQNfJ0cI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:23:19 +0200 Fabio Erculiani wrote: > If you consider parsing an ebuild something hidden behind a lot of > abstraction layers, O(n) vs O(n/2) is a big difference, even if both, > normalized, are still O(n). And I would never design an API which > assumes that O(n/2) equals to O(n), because you don't know how that is > going to be used in upper layers, today, tomorrow and in 5 years. Uhm. O(n) =3D=3D O(n/2). Anything assuming they're different is just wrong. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/AIrzp9+gqC99pCABQNfJ0cI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlBHNyQACgkQ96zL6DUtXhHFXwCg06dve7IshD2naVKioBIgyX3F r6AAnRxkRSlFnHtxi1x6ECb/rSkv/w76 =e0Xd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/AIrzp9+gqC99pCABQNfJ0cI--