Re: [Automake-NG] [Automake-ng] [PATCH 0/4] Minor refactoring and cleanup for the dist-related targets

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 05/10/2012 09:38 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, you got it backwards: it's no measurable change for "make 
>> all",
>> a 7% slow down for "make dist", and a 50% slow down for "make distdir -n" :-(
>>
> But then, with a more "realistic" biggish tree (that can be produced using the
> attached script), I see the following timings:
>
>   $ make -n distdir           # 10 times
>   pre-series:   43.2 seconds
>   post-series:  44.1 seconds
>
>   $ make all                  # 30 times
>   pre-series:   24.9 seconds
>   post-series:  25.2 seconds
>
>   $ make distdir              # 3 times
>   pre-series:   ~ 3 minutes
>   post-series:  ~ 2 minutes 30 seconds
>
> So I say this patch is good to go.

I agree.
Thanks!