On Monday 28 May 2007 03:43, you wrote: > Maybe I should look at the inner workings of cmake and gmake. Maybe > they have some good ideas. However having looked through the source > code of make, and also looking at the cvs logs, it does seem to be well > written. The only possibility I see of making it go a lot faster is a > complete redesign, e.g. my just in time idea for processing variables. > > Stephen
Just in time (jit), if I remember correctly, is a term used by java interpreters which compile the byte code into machine code!!! Perhaps this could be developed for makefile's, especially bsd.*.mk. This, I think, could be done in two ways: 1) Develop the bsd.*.mk files in C and link it in with make, or 2) Use the makefiles as source to compile into machine code (passibly via C->ASM). The machine code could be created on demand, or cached and only updated if the source makefile changes. I am not sure if this could work or even if it will have any significant speed increase. However if method 2 does work it has the potential to radically increase the speed of ports _while_ maintaining the flexability. All that will be needed is an API for the machine code and a compiler??? David
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