Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-10-26) NEW TIME!

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 06:16:32PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >From coreutils/src/ls.c:
>       /* Note has_capability() adds around 30% runtime to `ls --color`  */
> Andreas.

I think that's something we can live with. Colorizing is already significant
overhead, and if performance is important, don't do it:

/usr$ time ls --color=yes -R > /dev/null
real	0m23.871s
user	0m1.315s
sys	0m22.513s

/usr$ time ls --color=no -R > /dev/null
real    0m3.707s
user    0m0.636s 
sys     0m3.060s



(Actually average of three runs, after discarding one.)


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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences