* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:22:00PM CEST:
> Exactly! So:
> foo() { foo_result=`sed ...`; }
> foo; bar=$foo_result;
> instead of:
> foo() { sed ...; }
> bar=`foo`
> Where is the significant improvement?Two forks vs. one: the latter still forks right before exec'ing sed. Arguably, this is less important in the testsuite than it is in hot spots in configure and libtool. Cheers, Ralf
