Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:23:43 +0300 From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recursive make speedup patch Message-ID: <4014DC9F.9010009@ciam.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040126013745.GA34956@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040126000817.GA33860@xor.obsecurity.org> <1075079038.93327.27.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040126013745.GA34956@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: >>>* 'make index' and 'make describe' use some perl code, which might be >>>optimized or rewritten (e.g. replaced by an awk script, which would >>>have the further benefit of working out of the box on 5.x). >> >>I was planning on redoing some of the Perl per my email to you on that >>old PR. However, I can look at an awk rewrite as well. > > > I had a look at NetBSD: they use an awk script, but INDEX generation > seems to work a bit differently than us. Still, it might be useful as > a comparison in case they've spotted some useful tricks. I've tried rewrite perl code of 'describe' on awk, but I couldn't. I've tried sed/awk combination and got about two time slowing down. :( But I don't awk-guru anyway. -- Sem.
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