On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote:
and enable Make to bypass the shell altogether. Might be worth benchmarking on a big program. Has to be an executable, not a library, though; for libraries, the overhead of the libtool script is going to dominate.
As a reminder, a former Automake maintainer created a branch/fork of Automake and produced a version of Automake which outputs GNU Make Makefiles which are optimized to take advantage of GNU Make features. I assume that he worked on all of these sort of issues.
I don't recall where the code for this is but I am sure it can be found without much effort.
Yes, it might have been as much as 10 years already, but surely not that much has changed.
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