ar speed: sixfold improvement [PATCH]

[Zack Weinberg]

On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 13:16:04 -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
>I thought you were going to use simple variable refs in the o-iterator-doit
>rule commands, to ease readability.

It didn't work; the automatic variables came out null unless I used $$
escaping.  Since we seem stuck with $$ escapes I figured it was easier
to read if the rules were right there with the dependencies.

zw