[pacman-dev] [PATCH] repo-add: added a realpath implementation in bash

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I haven't looked at this in detail yet, but if this solution is more
>> portable and has no feature loss, why not use it by default?
>>
>
> I had the same question :P

My guess would be optimization - that calling a C binary may be faster
than a bash loop. Not sure though, just a guess.