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From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
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Subject: Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for
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In <465AB421.10802@dlr.de>, Hartmut Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de> typed:
> 1. make and its sub-makes for a) reading the file; b) parsing the file
> (note that .if and .for processing is done while parsing); c) processing
> targets.

Make and submakes have been gone over already. See <URL:
http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/ >.

I'm not sure it can be applied to the ports tree, though. I haven't
looked into it, but recalled this paper when you mentioned measuring
makes and sub-makes.

    <mike
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