>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> From: Paul Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 >> 02:21:48 -0500 (EST) >> I just upgraded from autoconf-2.13 to autoconf-2.52 and either I >> have done something incredibly stupid (an always present >> possibility) or the 2.52 version does its thing extremely slowly. Paul> It's the latter. Yes, it is incredibly slow. 2.53 brings some improvements. Most of the loss is due to tracking the call stack. As soon as I have time, I want to implement this within M4 itself, it should considerably improve the performances. Paul> You need to run "autoconf" on a faster machine. Sorry. (At Paul> least "configure" hasn't slowed down much. :-) Well, we tried to speed it up, config.status too, while also making them safer. On average they remained comparable to their previous versions.
