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Re: [RFC] Multi-processor friendly autoconf?
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Eric Siegerman |
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Re: [RFC] Multi-processor friendly autoconf? |
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Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:50:44 -0400 |
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:51:08AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > Basically, the idea is to change the configure phase into a Makefile
> > target,
> * can you reduce the number of fork/exec's total? That would also speed
> it up. (Not sure what you could do there, just thought I'd mention it.)
Doing it as a Makefile will *increase* them -- there'll be
overhead of at least one fork-exec per Makefile rule, i.e. one
per test, that isn't there in the current one-big-shell-script
scheme.
I'm *not* arguing against Paolo's idea -- it sounds rather cool
-- just pointing out one of the costs.
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