Re: State of the new config & build system

Peter Samuelson (peter@cadcamlab.org)
Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:21:19 -0600


[Alan Cox]
> > > find $TOPDIR -name "*.cf" -exec cat {} \; > Configure.help

[Horst von Brand]
> > cat `find $TOPDIR -name "*.cf"` > Configure.help #;-)

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]
> whatever is faster, do you have trustable benchmark numbers? ;)

Fewer forks vs. increased parallelism ... depends on the nature of your
bottlenecks, I guess, and cold vs. hot cache. Or you could have it
both ways:

find $TOPDIR -name \*.cf | xargs -n10 cat > Configure.help

...where 10 is tuned by benchmarking. (:

> Yes, its a joke, have a nice 2002 all!

Yeah, same from me..

Peter
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