[HEADS-UP] BSD sort is the default sort in -CURRENT

[Doug Barton]

Sounds great, thanks again!

Doug

On 06/29/2012 02:20 PM, Oleg Moskalenko wrote:
> Doug,
> 
> --nthreads option corresponds to --parallel option of NGNU 
> and it will be renamed. The other four proprietary options 
> will be marked as non-portable in the man page. 
> 
> After nthreads==>parallel renaming, NBSD will support all 
> NGNU options.
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion.
> Oleg
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Doug Barton [mailto:dougb at FreeBSD.org]
>> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 2:02 PM
>> To: Oleg Moskalenko
>> Cc: FreeBSD Current
>> Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] BSD sort is the default sort in -CURRENT
>>
>> On 06/29/2012 01:50 PM, Oleg Moskalenko wrote:
>>> 5) NBSD adds several of its own new proprietary options:
>>>
>>>   --mergesort
>>>   --qsort
>>>   --heapsort
>>>   --radixsort
>>>   --nthreads=... (multi-threaded build only)
>>
>> Oleg,
>>
>> First, thank you very much for providing both the performance numbers,
>> and the breakdown in the differences in command line options.
>> Everything
>> looks great, my only concern is the above.
>>
>> Are there similar/identical options in NGNU that correspond to the
>> options above? If so, I would be hesitant to add new names for them
>> because it hurts portability between platforms. If these are totally
>> new
>> features then my assumption is that you have clearly marked them as
>> non-portable in the man page?
>>
>> Once again, I really appreciate you addressing my concerns, and your
>> hard work on this project.
>>
>> Doug
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