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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] proc: add seq_put_decimal_ull_align to speed up
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 01:09:07PM -0800, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:10:42PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:00:40AM -0800, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> > > seq_put_decimal_ull_align(m, str, val, width) is equivalent of
> > > seq_printf(m, "%s%*d", str, width, val), but it works much faster.
> > 
> > It is called "minimum width", not alignment.
> 
> Yes, you are right. And it's used to align numbers in output files.
> 
> Maybe you could suggest a better name for this function?

I honestly don't know.
Contemplating printing integers backwards.