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From: cks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Subject: Re: Lack of a feature in GNU Make 3.48
Message-ID: <89Jun2.135412edt.30763@snow.white.toronto.edu>
Organization: Ziebmef home away from home
References: <89May31.210113edt.30763@snow.white.toronto.edu>
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 13:54:02 EDT

I wrote, forgetting the first rule of optimization ("measure!"):
|  As an aside, filter is a horribly inefficient function to use for
| this .... I wrote a $(finds ..) function (the speedup is quite
| notable).

 Wrong wrong wrong. The speedup is small on test cases, and nonpresent
on the real makefile. filter is quite fast enough.

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