Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use perl instead of tac

From: Paolo Bonzini <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:31:13 +0200

David Symonds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Jörg" == Jörg Sommer <[email-masked]> writes:
>>  Jörg> What about using a shell function and a *big* variable or an intermediate
>>  Jörg> file?
>>
>>  What makes you think that's any more faster or efficient than calling Perl
>>  at this point?
> 
> I doubt Jörg suggested it for its speed, but it removes the dependency on Perl.
> 
> Bit ugly, still.

And quadratic, unlike Perl (and unlike sed, if it worked portably).

Paolo