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From: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: [OFF TOPIC] Algorithms (was: Re: Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command existed in Emacs.)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 06:00:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YRZs5jTMIyubcTTc@scrozzle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czqh3b8u.fsf@zoho.eu>

On 2021-08-13 at 12:11:29 +0200,
Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> #! /bin/zsh
> longest-line () {
>     local f=$1
>     awk '{ print length($0) " " $0; }' $f | sort -n | tail -1

Don't sort unless you have to.

Don't send all that data through two pipes.

    awk '{if(length($0) > length(x)) {x = $0} END {print x}'

For small files, you won't notice the difference.  For large files, you
will.  Definitions of "small" and "large" depend on a lot of things.

> }



  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-13 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-13  7:12 Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command existed in Emacs Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-13  7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-14  0:46   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-14  6:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-14  6:29       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-14  7:18         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-14  7:25           ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-14  7:47             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-13  7:57 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-13  8:34   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-13  8:56     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-13  9:20       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-13  9:26 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-13 10:11   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-13 13:00     ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE [this message]
2021-08-13 13:07       ` [OFF TOPIC] Algorithms (was: Re: Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command existed in Emacs.) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-13 13:17         ` Yuri Khan
2021-08-13 13:26           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-13 13:48     ` Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command existed in Emacs Arthur Miller
2021-08-13 18:21       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-13 20:47         ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-13 23:42           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-14  0:24             ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-14  0:42               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-14  1:02                 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-14  2:18                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-14  1:46             ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-13 23:49         ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-13 23:54           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-13 14:15   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-13 14:42     ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-13 15:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-13 17:09         ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-13 18:16       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-13 23:40       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-13 23:45         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-13 23:57           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-13 23:47         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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