From: lxoliva <lxoliva@559672b5-ba27-0410-b829-e8f1faed8b1b>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:03:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Summary: deblob-check: comments with relative runtimes for various engines
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Summary: deblob-check: comments with relative runtimes for various engines


git-svn-id: http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/scripts@17579 559672b5-ba27-0410-b829-e8f1faed8b1b
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diff --git a/deblob-check b/deblob-check
index e1e125e12e0..e2b6f339926 100755
--- a/deblob-check
+++ b/deblob-check
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
-# deblob-check version 2020-07-21
+# deblob-check version 2020-07-25
 # Inspired in gNewSense's find-firmware script.
 # Written by Alexandre Oliva <lxoliva@fsfla.org>
 
@@ -83,6 +83,16 @@
 #		completed in reasonable time.
 
 
+# For reference, as of 5.8-rc6-gnu, checking the full tarball (with
+# -B, not -C) takes up:
+
+# Engine            top mem   time
+# GNU awk 5.0.1     1.7GB       1x
+# Python 3.8.3         48MB    14x
+# Perl 5.30.3          22MB    45x
+# GNU sed 4.5      10+GB      ???
+
+
 # The default sensitivity is 32 constants.
 
 # The sensitivity, if present, must be the first option.  The action