From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: Horrible re-packing? Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:22:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20060605211436.GA58708@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Linus Torvalds , Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 05 23:22:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FnMWW-0000JZ-Ot for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:22:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750900AbWFEVWF (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:22:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750913AbWFEVWF (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:22:05 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:22128 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750900AbWFEVWD (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:22:03 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.108.184]) by VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J0E00G02OOQIKG0@VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:22:02 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <20060605211436.GA58708@dspnet.fr.eu.org> X-X-Sender: nico@localhost.localdomain To: Olivier Galibert Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:03:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Comments? > > Why don't you just sort the full path+filename with a strcmp variant > that starts by the end of the string for comparison? May at least be > simpler to understand. Much more expensive for both memory usage and CPU cycles. Nicolas