Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jason Burrell <> | Subject | Re: Perl make depend made faster | Date | Sun, 15 Sep 1996 18:31:20 -0500 (CDT) |
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> > Perl has the problem that it easily uses lots of memory, and > > also that it isn't always there. If people really care, how about > > optimizing this patch instead? > > > Thou art a harsh taskmaster, but teach wisely. I'm not sure I care _that_ > much :) > > I think I will just stare at mkdep.c for a couple of days and ponder on > the ways of the wizards, hoping that I will learn as much more of C as I > did of Perl while writing depend.pl.
This is fairly unrelated to the actual posting in this thread that I replied to. This is the only one still in my mailspool, so I keep it.
The AWK version of "make dep" took, on average, a little over an hour here. Sometimes it would take as long as four or five for reasons I never found. Linus' mkdep.c did it in about 10 minutes.
The machine? 386/20 with a Cyrix 386->486 (aka "Warmed over 386") chip with 1K cache, and 8MB RAM. No active swapping from GCC.
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