Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 3/8] tac is not portable

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Hello,

Tag Andreas!

> > > > Actually, I'd be even happier if the dependency on tac was dropped in
> > > > favour of always using the perl snippet (or equivalent portable work
> > > > alike).
>
> I've removed tac from the cvs, so the problem doesn't exist anymore.

Okay, excellent.  Thanks!

> The relevant issue here was process startup time though, especially when files 
> were not in the cache. Perl starts relatively slow compared to something as 
> simple as tac.

Yes that's true.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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