> From: Paul Smith <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:20:32 -0500 > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > I just tried this on my Linux box, by touching 1000 files: > > i=1; while [[ $i -le 1000 ]]; do touch foo$i; : $((++i)); done > > then creating a makefile with nothing in it but a target "foo" listing > all 1000 fooNNN files as prerequisites, and no rules to build any of > them. > > When I run normal make, it takes an average of 0.23s to run. > > When I run make -r, it takes an average of 0.006s to run.
Can you show this Makefile? I'd like to time that on my system. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
