From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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 Message-ID: References: <87czqh3b8u.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7671"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 15:01:32 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEWoV-0001pM-UP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:01:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42108 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEWoU-0004Dl-Sd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43158) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1mEWng-0004Da-1P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:00:40 -0400 Original-Received: from www458.your-server.de ([136.243.165.62]:47156) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1mEWne-0003Lj-7y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: from sslproxy03.your-server.de ([88.198.220.132]) by www458.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92.3) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1mEWnX-0002fh-11 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:00:31 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.58.35.183] (helo=localhost) by sslproxy03.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1mEWnW-000OI6-8v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:00:30 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87czqh3b8u.fsf@zoho.eu> X-Authenticated-Sender: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.103.2/26262/Fri Aug 13 10:20:51 2021) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=136.243.165.62; envelope-from=2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com; helo=www458.your-server.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132498 Archived-At: On 2021-08-13 at 12:11:29 +0200, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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. > }