From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:11:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83a9ov3jjv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> <516E17FE.8050900@cs.ucla.edu> <83ppxt2iuc.fsf@gnu.org> <516EEE68.90505@cs.ucla.edu> <0ehe9ezol.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <516F11CC.2080301@cs.ucla.edu> <516F43D3.3090008@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366301497 32410 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2013 16:11:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:11:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 18 18:11:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1USrQy-00072y-2x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:11:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USrQx-0000E1-II for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:11:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51136) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USrQs-0000DV-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:11:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USrQr-0003EH-De for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:11:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:54066) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USrQr-0003Dm-5e; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MLG00E00KOWL100@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:11:30 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MLG00EEJKZ6HF50@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:11:30 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159001 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:29:42 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Paul Eggert wrote: > > > Doesn't add much: 0.9 seconds in one test run, and that's probably at > > the noise level. But regardless of speed it's better to avoid the > > complexity of Autoconf and stick to straightforward C code when it's > > easy to do so, as it is here. > > It would be surprising if it weren't noise, since a few more if/elses > here and there shouldn't make any measurable difference. I don't think > Eli should feel any obligation to redo his work in a different style to > the vast majority of the existing auto-configuration stuff before > installing it. If he or anyone else wants to, by all means let's try and > speed up configure as an independent project though. I agree. Paul, I see where are you coming from, and I do agree with your reasoning. But as Glenn points out, it doesn't make sense to do this for one or two settings, only if we are going to move most or all of these out of configure.