Re: Newlines, preserving data, and multiple access paths

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> No... it just means that if the mod times force a contents check, you
> have to translate the text-base contents as you compare them against the
> normal contents. That's "a teeny tiny bit slower," not, "a lot slower."

It's worse than that -- it invalidates our size check. Right now,
differing file sizes *guarantee* that a modification was made. With
eol conversion, there can be different sizes with no local mods.

So we'd lose one early return from text_modified_p().

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:53 2006