Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [v3 2/3] coccinelle: api: extend memdup_user rule with vmemdup_user() | From | Markus Elfring <> | Date | Wed, 22 Jul 2020 08:44:29 +0200 |
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>> Under which circumstances would you begin to care more for involved differences >> in corresponding run time characteristics? > > When the difference is hours vs seconds.
Such a view can be influenced by execution environments in considerable ways.
> In this case, there are tradeoffs between the two options,
I am trying to improve the awareness for possible software design variations.
> andI don't know which would be faster,
I am curious if more contributors would get into the mood to compare data processing approaches a bit more.
> but I think it is extremely unlikely that the difference is noticible.
But the following effects may be known for the evaluation of a SmPL rule which was combined for two code parts.
* The SmPL dependencies are checked only once.
* Can the source code search efforts be reduced a bit?
> But if you are concerned about it, you are welcome to try.
Will anybody become interested to measure the software behaviour exactly?
Regards, Markus
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