[U-Boot] [PATCH 02/31] environment, netconsole: reducing packages when printing environment variables

[Stefan Roese]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > Why not fold this "putc()" into the puts() above (replace it with
> > > printf)?
> >
> > I make it in a printf (Think there was no reason for not doing it so)
>
> Check if printf() is not printing a series of single characters again!
> Also, we tend to prefer using puts() / putc() over printf() because of
> the huge performance overhead involved in printf() when only plain
> constant strings need to be printed.

printf() is already used in the 2nd part of the patch. But the 1st string can 
also be concat-ed of course and printed via puts(). printf() would be easier 
to read though from my point of view.

Best regards,
Stefan

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