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Re: Serialization dependencies muck up configure-on-demand
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:47:57 -0500
- Subject: Re: Serialization dependencies muck up configure-on-demand
- References: <20021223203932.GA16276@doctormoo>
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 03:39:32PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Daniel said:
> >Well, I'm not sure how useful of a goal that is; I suppose it would
> >speed up re-making when most directories don't need to be updated or
> >updated substantially. I don't see a better way without being truly
>
> Specifically, when nothing needs to be reconfigured, but lots of things
> do need to be rebuilt, this is very useful. :-) This is quite a common
> situation.
Nah; if lots of things need to be rebuilt we can just do one thing at a
time, since each directory would keep all the available make jobs busy.
The improvement is pretty marginal.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer