RE:

[Bijal Shah]

Thank you - I missed that part of the message completely.
B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 06 March 2003 16:00
To: Bijal Shah
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: RE: 


%% Bijal Shah <address@hidden> writes:

  bs> I just retested with that change and it is a whole lot better, but
  bs> the performance still doesn't reach that achieved with "gmake
  bs> -r". The difference is now in the order of 200% rather than 400%.

As I said:

> The only way to disable the pattern rules is by listing them with no
> commands (see the GNU make manual).

  bs> Are there any other tips that might help as it is causing a few
  bs> problems on large scale builds.

Run with the -p option to find all the rules left in the database.

Run with -d to see what pattern rules make is testing that take a long
time.

Remove the ones that seem to be a problem.

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