On Sat, 29 Mar 2025, Gyan Doshi wrote:
Did you not try to use GNU make's flie function?
I just benched this and it ranges from 1m28.093s to 1m29.971s (5%
faster) for the lavc targets.
However, this was added in make 4.0. Are we supporting older make?
Yes, we generally do support older GNU make; macOS (even the latest
versions) only ships with GNU make 3.81.
Regarding measuring the runtime cost of this change; measuring the whole
build time is quite uninteresting, the interesting bit is measuring the
time to build e.g. an .a library on its own. So after a full build, I do
"rm libavcodec/libavcodec.a; time make libavcodec/libavcodec.a". This
change raises that time from ~3.5 seconds to ~3.8 seconds. However do note
that this is on a quite slow system in itself; without the "rm", it takes
make 2.3 seconds just to figure out that nothing needs to be done.
So on that level, the change indeed is mostly tolerable.
However - this is very quick as long as "echo" is a shell builtin. If
"echo" turns out to be an external executable instead of the shell
builtin (which we can simulate by calling "/usr/bin/echo" instead of
"echo"), then this suddenly takes >16 seconds rather than the earlier <4
seconds. And that's quite a steep price to pay.
As noted before, this is only a fix for a potential, hypothetical problem.
The fix is inexpensive in the case of a builtin echo, where we don't need
the fix anyway. For the case of an external echo, where we potentially
could need the fix, the fix is quite expensive though.
But even with the external /usr/bin/echo (on msys2), I still can produce a
very long (>32k) .objs file with only one single invocation of
/usr/bin/echo. So we don't actually have this problem even in that case.
So given that there are multiple concerns about the performance about
this, and the problem that it tries to fix is entirely hypothetical at the
moment, I would suggest that we skip this fix for now.
If someone actually manages to hit the problem in some setup and can tell
us about it, we could reconsider of course.
// Martin
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