On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:51:08AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > Basically, the idea is to change the configure phase into a Makefile > > target, > * can you reduce the number of fork/exec's total? That would also speed > it up. (Not sure what you could do there, just thought I'd mention it.)
Doing it as a Makefile will *increase* them -- there'll be overhead of at least one fork-exec per Makefile rule, i.e. one per test, that isn't there in the current one-big-shell-script scheme. I'm *not* arguing against Paolo's idea -- it sounds rather cool -- just pointing out one of the costs. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The acronym for "the powers that be" differs by only one letter from that for "the pointy-haired boss".
