Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] fixing make

[Andrew Suffield]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:56:55PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> I can believe it very well might be better to keep `make(1)' in C with
> call-outs and call-ups to the extension language ("interpretive
> overhead" and comperable handwaving).  Inefficiencies in a `make(1)'
> implementation tend to be very noticable, even though you might think
> "bah -- compilation times dominate".

Amusingly enough, compilation time doesn't dominate very much these
days, particularly on large projects. (What's really going on is
grossly off-topic, so...)

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