On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 13:59 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Jordà Polo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > standards-version is kind of sad. Date::Parse is just incredibly slow. > > We probably could get a substantial speedup by storing the standard > > release dates in seconds since epoch instead of human-readable dates. > > What about 'compiling' some of that stuff at build-time? > So the information is stored in a human-readable way but turned into a > faster representation when the package is built. cpp could be (ab)used for > that pourpose.
That strikes me as somewhat over-engineered. The dates of policy releases are easily available to anyone who's interested in the details and it's not like adding a comment against each entry or turning a timestamp in to human-readable form is that difficult. Just MHO, obviously :) Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
