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Re: tweaks for autoconf 2.50
"Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU> writes:
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:54:05PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> >
> > Assuming for discussion purposes that the bootstrap works, is there any
> > compelling reason to /not/ update the AC_PREREQ lines to require 2.50?
> > After the 3.0 release? It's something that only affects developers.
>
> I'd at least want to know what was up with the 20x performance lose first.
While it takes longer to *generate* configure, i've noticed the
configure script it generates is significantly faster.
It's easily twice as fast at generating the headers and Makefiles as
the old configure.
So i'd rather see a 20x performance lose for the person who has to run
autoconf every couple months, if we get a 2x performance win for the
people compiling gcc.
>
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> zw This is, no doubt, the rational strategy; quite possibly the
> only one that will work. But it ignores the exigiencies of
> the tenure system and is therefore impractical.
> -- Jerry Fodor, _The Mind Doesn't Work That Way_
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