Re: [RFA] autotest speedup

[Eric Blake]

Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de> writes:

> > > This speeds up autotest generation by ~6% (15.9 to 15.1 seconds) by 
> > > outlining detection of tracing into a shell function, and removing the 
> > > at_trace_this variable
> 
> Let's announce this in NEWS.

Also, let's announce the speedups.

From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:11:05 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] * NEWS: Announce recent round of speed optimizations.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
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 ChangeLog |    4 ++++
 NEWS      |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f72a58b..9fab60d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-10-10  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
+
+       * NEWS: Announce recent round of speed optimizations.
+
 2007-10-10  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
 
        * NEWS: Announce shell function usage in Autotest.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 027a635..5c0e3c5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
 
 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.61b (????-??-??)
 
+** Many optimizations have been applied to make overall execution faster.
+
 ** Autotest now makes use of shell functions.
 
 ** config.status now uses awk instead of sed also for config headers.
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