Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Faster depend written in Perl | From | <> | Date | Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:31:15 -0400 (EDT) |
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> I have an old 386/33 and running 'make depend' takes a long time. I > heard this was because gawk uses floating point instead of integer > arithmetic. To speed things up, I translated the depend.awk script > into Perl using the a2p program. I edited the result to clean up the > code. The resulting script runs much faster (up to an order of > magnitude on my machine without a coprocessor) either because of > integer arithmetic or Perl's faster I/O.
I assume this patch is for machines with no math unit only, because on a machines with coprocessor, floating point arithmetic runs faster than integer.
Melvin
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