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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:...but doesn't the script itself involve a fork? On a big project, with an extra fork for every source file, that can still add up.
Don't forget that invoking the gcc executable from make or the shell involves a fork anyway. If gcc is 'exec'ed from the script, there will only be the fork that invokes the shell, versus the fork that would have invoked the executable.
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