Alexander Leidinger <alexan...@leidinger.net> writes:
> You change from "no fork+exec if the file doesn't exist" (due to "if"
> and "[" being shell-builtins) to "always fork+exec". On fast machines
> surely not an issue, on slow ones, it may make a difference (I have an
> old amd64 machine at an ISP which takes days to do a buildworld with
> -j2 due to not much memory, only 2 cores, old HDs, and other stuff
> going on in parallel).
Have you measured this? Because the whole point of clean_dep() is that
the file it looks for nearly always exists. It's the grep we're not
sure of. So checking if the file exists is nearly always a waste.
> While the .depend.* namespace is surely controlled by us, would it
> make sense to change the glob to ".{o,pico}" instead of ".*o" instead
> to prevent unexpected surprises in the future?
Our sh does not support the {} syntax. Besides, what would it change?
What else would match .*o but not .{o,pico}?
DES
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