Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-180

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Gary V.Vaughan wrote:
> > It slows down libtool because you're forking every time you call 
> > func_quote_for_eval().
>
> Yeah.  I'll buy that, especially for hosts where fork is expensive, and
> there is a precedent for this in libtool funcs already... see - --patch-181.

I have witnessed that under Windows, libtool can run as slow as the C 
compiler, and sometimes even slower.  In other words, the C compiler 
does an optimized compile of a C source file in less time than libtool 
takes to invoke it.

Bob
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