Re: cost of popen()

[Hideki IWAMOTO]

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:01:10 +0900, Shigio Yamaguchi wrote...
> I don't agree. The -v(verbose) option should not change the behaveior.
> But I agree with you in the point of leaving the user the alternative.
> How about adding new option --noxargs to gtags?
> 

How about "global -f"? Is the --noxargs option required also for global?

> o New gtags use xargs(1) to improve the performance of making standard
>   format of GTAGS and GRTAGS. It is not used for compact format and GSYMS.
>   (right?)

It is right.

I want to change before the next release also in compact format.
However, since gnusort needs to process more lines at once,
it is not known yet whether the performance improves or not.

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