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From: Legacy Fishtank <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:54:42AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> How far down the list was "make it not take twice as long
> to build the kernel as kbuild 2.4" ? Keith mentioned O(n^2)
> effects due to each compile operation needing to reload
> the dependancies etc.

Each compile needs to reload deps???

Ug.  IMHO if you are doing to shake up the entire build system, you
should Do It Right(tm) and build a -complete- dependency graph -once-.

	Jeff


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