Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:22:00PM CEST:
> Exactly! So:
>   foo() { foo_result=`sed ...`; }
>   foo; bar=$foo_result;
> instead of:
>   foo() { sed ...; }
>   bar=`foo`
> Where is the significant improvement?

Two forks vs. one: the latter still forks right before exec'ing sed.
Arguably, this is less important in the testsuite than it is in hot
spots in configure and libtool.

Cheers,
Ralf