Re: [patch] reversing dependency order

[Paul D. Smith]

%% DJ Delorie <address@hidden> writes:

  >> I guess my only concern with this is that there's a performance and
  >> memory penalty to pay with the current implementation.

  dd> I tried to do it the fast way, but if you actually reverse the order,
  dd> it messes up $< and other variables.  I'd be happy with a solution
  dd> that moved all the performance penalties to the option invocation
  dd> (i.e. fast without the option given, slow with it).  This option is
  dd> strictly for debugging Makefiles.

  dd> Does this mean that, if we work out the issues, this option would be
  dd> accepted?

Yes, I think so.

Actually a while ago someone requested that there be a way to
_randomize_ the list to make it even more likely to find problems.  My
concerns there are with reproducibility (so you can make sure you fixed
the problem) as well as implementation :).

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