[pacman-dev] scritplet output logging removed?

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 12:02:18 EST 2007


On Nov 5, 2007 10:40 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/5/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And there is no need to use puts/fputs if
> > you just use a format string correctly: printf("%s", stringtoprint)
> > instead of printf(stringtoprint), as far as I know.
>
> Yeah, that works too - f/puts() is just a little cheaper of a call,
> but that's me being snarky. I tend to use "++i" because it has the
> potential to be equal to "i++" or _one_ clock cycle faster 8)

I would guess GCC is able to optimize calls to printf("%s") quite
well, in addition to figuring out i++ vs. ++i (especially when there
are 0 side effects from interchanging them). But that is just a guess.
:)

-Dan




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