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Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat()
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat()
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:12:33 -0500
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <4.3.1.2.20010213134821.019a7130@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>
> I know this would only address half the problem but I wonder if it would make
> sense to cache the results of ReadFile() so that separate checks for symbolic
> links and executables would result in only 1 ReadFile() call. This seems
> like a nice general optimization which wouldn't be so "gross"...
>
Great minds must think alike.
Earnie.
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