Re: Make on XP - shell selection?

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > > That'd be a terrible
> > > cycle killer, because this function would be called on each command
> > > invocation.
> >
> > But no. Compared to what it takes the OS to spawn (and run!) a  
> > process,
> > one path search more or less wont make even the slightest difference.
>
> How long is your Path?  On a typical Windows machine, it tends to be
> quite long, what with all kinds of packages that add to it at will.
> It's nothing as short as "/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" on Unix.

AFAIR, in this talk http://archive.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/events/ 
profiling_desktop_apps they show how they discovered that Gnome  
applications had a bottleneck in the code that ... loads the Gnome  
icons.  They had a huge list of paths to search and it *considerably*  
increased the application start-up time.  So yes, I wouldn't be  
surprised if doing one PATH search per command would considerably  
slow down `make'.

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

PGP.sig
Description: This is a digitally signed message part