Re: Faster install-sh in C

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> Also, keep in my that this C install program has the extra feature of
> being able to install multiple files on one invocation, per suggestion
> from Tom Lane.  This allows us to save the nested for-loop in
> src/include/Makefile.  GNU install (available on my system) also has
> this capability, but would we be able to use the trick if we had to
> cater for the lowest common denominator found on other, non-GNU-enabled
> systems?

We would definitely not ... and my suspicion is that that is the largest
single component of the available speedup.

            regards, tom lane