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Re: Suggestions for improving gcc 3.2 compilation speed?
> From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
>
> "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
That's the one. Thanks Zack.
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