Re: GNU make to consider files checksum

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Philip Guenther <address@hidden> writes:

> (Have you measured how often this sort of thing would save
> recompilation and/or relinking and how much time it would save then?
> What's the comparison to how much time would be spent calculating the
> checksums?  If it saves a minute once every 100 compiles but costs a
> second in each of those, then it's a net loss...)

I don't have numbers but I think it can save a lot of time in the
linking phase, that is *really* slow.

Best,
Giuseppe