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| From: | Markus Elfring |
| Subject: | [bug #51309] Determination of a file list from a single folder without changing the working directory |
| Date: | Sun, 2 Jul 2017 12:42:13 -0400 (EDT) |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0 |
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #51309 (project make):
> (a) you prefer to do it this way rather than the currently supported method
of post-processing the wildcard results, …
Yes.
>(b) there's a significant performance benefit to avoiding the extra
processing.
I find that the difference can be eventually measured.
We have got different opinions about the circumstances when it would be
significant enough.
> … adding new features in a backward- and POSIX-compatible way is difficult
due …
How many software developers would dare to extend corresponding programming
interfaces so that they can be better reused by the make function library?
I am curious if this story could ever turn into a more promising “maybe”
thing.
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