Arun Raghavan wrote:
> I've not really got an opinion on the topic, per se, but fwiw, this is
> really not a meaningful statistic. *If* parsing strings in the ebuild is
> not a trivial part of the overall ebuild parsing process, then yes, this
> is a significant gain and should be treated as such. I find it unlikely
> that this would be the case.
>
Sure, it's nothing that major, it's just one example of a free performance
increase. (Although I would point out that "parsing strings" is basically
what shells do.) Sure, that's nothing in the context of the actual install,
but there were a few comments in the huge GLEP-55 thread about performance
during cache generation.
> I'm not sure how one can go about measuring the impact of this on ebuild
> parsing as a whole. Maybe make take a few "typical" ebuilds, change
> quoting style, and run it through ebuild.sh in a loop. All the inherited
> eclasses would need to change too, though, I guess.
>
Yeah, though I won't be doing it, I've kinda lost my enthusiasm; if anyone's
learnt something they didn't know before, that's good enough.
