Re: make clean is slow

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> So long ago already ...

Slow but sure ...

> > For some of the OSs the time is about the same if the directory is
> > already cleaned, while for others (e.g. OS-X) the time improves
> > considerably if the directory is already clean.
>
> Here's a first patch I'm merging to master.  It speeds up removal of the
> "so_locations" files, getting me 30% faster 'make clean' overall with
> your package.

We will all appreciate this speedup.  I bet that there is much more 
than 30% speedup in the case that object files are accessed via NFS. 
The timings I posted were for local access.

Bob
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