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On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 08:51:17PM +0200, Max Maischein wrote: > Am 04.04.2013 20:33, schrieb David Golden: > >> [...] > >> > >> Optimise the slow parts. This won't be one of them. > > > > It depends. Don't we copy to a temp directory for making the archive > > file? If every file is copied with EU::Command as a separate command, > > that means invoking Perl once per copy. That is going to be very, > > very slow on Windows. > > While this is a good point, the patch(es) so far only address changes to > a program that is run once or twice when cutting a release, and ideally > not run at all while cutting a release. In that sense, spending time on > making that program perform faster is wasted in my opinion. And I was suggesting that using ExtUtils::Command by shelling out to *it* wasn't the best way (either). Call the code directly. (The code that ExtUtils::Command uses, as its subroutines are just command line parsing wrappers for other Perl code.) Nicholas ClarkThread Previous