On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:17:26PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > That one still needs testing, but the idea is to kill all quadratic > loops in the func_mode_link initialization: > > Stuff like > compile_command="$compile_command $qarg" > is better written as > $ECHO " $qarg" >&FD_COMPILE_COMMAND > > where FD_COMPILE_COMMAND is a m4 macro which evaluates to a file > descriptor for the file holding the contents of compile_command. > Same for oldobjs and a couple of other iteratively-set parameters. > The desired value is then retrieved quickly by > > compile_command=`$SED 's/^ //' <"$compile_command_file" | $NL2SP`
Can you explain how the latter is faster? From inspection, I'd believe the first to be faster. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
