| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Faster install-sh in C |
| Date: | 2005-03-23 17:48:29 |
| Message-ID: | 8317.1111600109@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> writes:
> Also, keep in my that this C install program has the extra feature of
> being able to install multiple files on one invocation, per suggestion
> from Tom Lane. This allows us to save the nested for-loop in
> src/include/Makefile. GNU install (available on my system) also has
> this capability, but would we be able to use the trick if we had to
> cater for the lowest common denominator found on other, non-GNU-enabled
> systems?
We would definitely not ... and my suspicion is that that is the largest
single component of the available speedup.
regards, tom lane
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