Re: On Tabs and Spaces
From: Michael Witten <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:42
On 17 Oct 2007, at 6:21:30 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
According to this calculation the waste is 47808782 bytes, or about 45.6 MiB, for 8-spaces-wide tabs.
I concede my calculation was crude.
Interestingly, modifying my calculation to look
for tabs at the beginning of the line gives a
similar result:
# calculates the extra space required to
# use the given number of spaces/tab.
size()
{
count=`grep -RIo "^\`printf \"\t\"\`" . | wc -l`;
perl -e "print $count*$(($1-1))/1024/1024 . \" MiB\n\"";
}
size 8; => 49.7416791915894 MiB
and for git:
size 8; => 1.25082969665527 MiB
Anyway, thanks for the neat script.
mfwitten