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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:30:59 +0200
From: grischka <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: build system rules & algorithms
To: [email protected]
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After all GNU make is not "the reference implementation of an alpha build
system". It is a piece of code with a long history with more going on
than just a few O(n) lookups. You might find features like checkout
from RCS/SCCS version control via built-in rules which is obsolete stuff
since long ago, still everyone using GNU make today is paying for it with
maybe 80% of it's total CPU time, worldwide. (Try "make -r ..." to see
what I mean).
Apologies to Mike Shal, grischka and the list for my previous post which
mis-attributed the above comment to Mike Shal.
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