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Subject: Re: size of environment vs speed; V4N10
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 16:47:45 EST
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From: topaz!packard!mtung!jhc (Jonathan Clark)
Date: 11 Dec 85 14:03:32 EST (Wed)

While building fairly large pieces of software like an
entire UNIX system, kernel, commands, libraries, and
everything, from source, we found that a good way of
speeding everything up was to set up a minimum size
environment (about 5 variables), then use 'ksh' as the shell
that 'make' used all the time. This produced about a 1/4
faster build (knocked about 90 mins off a six-hour build
time). Of course, most of what 'make' does is 'exec' a
shell...

-- 
Jonathan Clark
[NAC]!mtung!jhc

My walk has become rather more silly lately.

Volume-Number: Volume 4, Number 10