From: "Dave Korn" > Ummm, that doesn't really sound like a well thought through plan > to me.
That only means it can still happen. > Well, this is something that is easily amenable to testing and measurement. > It would be pretty trival to add a call to a path search (even one that is > just trivially performed and the results thrown away; it'd still prove the > point) controlled by an option switch and time a few big complex builds both > with and without. Measurement may be trival, interpretation of the result often not quite. Here is something to think about: I tested with an up-to-date project. It has 20 subprojects, that means the top makefile runs 20 commands that are all sub-makes. The sub-makes mostly report 'nothing to do', except two that run two sub-makes each again. The timings are from hot cache. make CVS as is : 7.09 seconds make CVS with per command path search : 2.81 seconds Surprised? --- grischka _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32