Subject: Re: bug#20029: 'yes' surprisingly slow

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:09:29 -0600

On 03/09/2015 04:14 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:

>>> +
>>> +for size in 1 4095 4096 8191 8192 16383 16384; do
>>
>> Should you also test 4097 8193 and 16385 (that is, a likely
>> 1-more-than-BUFSIZ in the mix)?
> 
> The 1 more is implicit with the \n added by yes(1).

Then you should also test 4094 8190 and 16382, to make sure that a
multiple of a non-aligned subset with a small unused tail also works
(although I guess the 4097 tests the case of an unused tail if BUFSIZ is
8192, although in that case the unused tail is much larger than a few
bytes).

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