Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Akim Demaille wrote:

>>> +  distclean-recursive \
>>> +  maintainer-clean-recursive

>> When the order does not matter, you should sort alphabetically IMHO.

> Doesn't sort cost CPU and time?  Why sort if you don't have to?

You get reproducible results, which reduces the number of Heisenbugs that
you have to deal with.  I routinely sort things in code for that same
reason.  Sorting is generally quite fast.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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