Re: Faster depend written in Perl

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 27 Jul 1996 10:23:50 +0100 (BST)

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> > I have an old 386/33 and running 'make depend' takes a long time.
> Upgrade! 486 motherboards with CPU are so cheap that there is no
> excuse.

Not always the case. Quite a few people are running 386's because 486's
are not cheap (to them, or where they are located).

Since the perl depend is faster on all machines using it seems to be
a 2.1 common sense item. Don't however assume all the world can pop down the
road and buy a 486

Alan

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