Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat()

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Tue Feb 13 11:12:00 GMT 2001


"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.

_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com


--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple



More information about the Cygwin mailing list