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Re: dependency branch


On May  1, 1999, Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> wrote:

> I tried the trunk with `automake -i' and the branch with dependency
> tracking enabled.  In this way I hoped to measure the time taken by
> the extra /bin/sh exec's in the dependency tracking code.

> I got around 10% overhead, like you.  I'm happy with that.

Yep, but that was probably with gcc, right?  I expect much larger
overheads with other compilers, in which we'd have to use -M or -E.
What do you think of having dependency enabled by default if it can be 
generated as side-effect (unless explicitly disabled with
--disable-dependencies), but disabled by default otherwise (unless
explicitly enabled with --enable-dependencies)?

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