Re: [cocci] [1/36] coccinelle: misc: add cond_return_no_effect.cocci

Markus Elfring <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:50:33 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kernel-janitors,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Further metavariables can eventually be shared for an SmPL rule.
>>
>> How do you think about to avoid repeated search efforts by separate SmP=
L rules
>> (for the patch mode)?
>=20
> Are there impressive performance improvements from merging the rules?

I got the impression that representative benchmarking systems are not avai=
lable
for detailed system tests of the Coccinelle software (including coccicheck=
 scripts)
so far.


> If so, could you share an example or numbers?
The evaluation of some SmPL scripts gets occasionally measured.

Regards,
Markus