Il 02/nov/2016 22:27, "Eric Blake" <ebl...@redhat.com> ha scritto: > I tested this with coreutils. Timing wise, on my system, I was able to > consistently see a reduction of './config.status --recheck' execution > time from around 34.3s pre-patch, to around 33.9s post-patch; a little > better than 1%. That's not huge, but big enough that I can say it is a > real improvement and not just measurement noise.
This makes sense, since I got 3% from the while series of three. Your measurements still have the cat(1) fork for AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED, for example. Paolo