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Re: Suggestions for improving gcc 3.2 compilation speed?

"Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu> writes:

> It gets much worse if you have split this into
> subdirectories, then cd into directories and run another copy of make.
> Someone (Zack?) once posted an article which explained why this is
> very bad and changed gcc to avoid doing this.  I wish I could find it.

'Recursive Make Considered Harmful', Peter Miller.  Abstract, and link
to full text, at
<http://www.tip.net.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html>.

zw
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