Hi Yann, Thank you for your review!
On 10/29/2013 07:06 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > I guess all these grep spawning are what makes it slow. > > I wonder if it would not be possible to invert the loop (in pseudo > Python code): > > for f in all_interesting_files: > read f in memory > for s in all_symbols: > if symbol is in f: > remove f from all_symbols > break the inner-most loop You probably meant "remove s from all_symbols", but I got it. > > This way: > - you scan the tree only once > - as soon as a symbol is matched, it is removed, thus decreasing > the amount of checks done in further loops. This sounds like a very good idea, thanks! I hope to have time to implement a mix of it and Michal's proposal later this week, or at least next week. Thanks again, Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, CEO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com +33 484 258 098 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
