Re: Drop Gnulib support for ecvt, fcvt, gcvt, getw, putw?

[Paul Eggert]

On 6/12/22 21:54, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > The functions ecvt, fcvt, gcvt, getw, putw are no longer in POSIX and
> > the glibc manual pretty much recommends against them. How about if we
> > drop Gnulib support for them? This would speed up 'configure' a bit,
> > among other things. As far as I know nobody uses them.
> I think this is a wrong axis of optimization.

I should have made it clearer that it was more to avoid confusion than 
to optimize. ("Why does Gnulib mess with ecvt?" I wondered.)

Your other optimization suggestions look reasonable, if someone has the 
time.

For more-drastic performance improvements we could use improvements to 
the shell. I'll send a followup email about this.