On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Is there a way to make this quite a lot faster?
The LTLIBRARIES bits: yes, noted. The PROGRAMS bits should be
reasonably fast already, only forking a constant number of times.
While clean is running, it is clear that the libraries bit is taking
most of the time. My package has quite a lot of these files to
remove, and the sequential nature of the removal process causes it to
be rather slow.
The time to clean my package depends quite a lot on the OS:
FreeBSD: 1.512
OS-X Leopard: 3.575
Solaris 10: 4.339
Linux (under Solaris VirtualBox): 4.299
MinGW: 6.656
For some of the OSs the time is about the same if the directory is
already cleaned, while for others (e.g. OS-X) the time improves
considerably if the directory is already clean.
Usually I don't care much about 'make clean' times but when I am
chasing down compilation warnings I tend to do a lot of cleans.
Bob
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