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On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> wrote: > I don't know if this is a feature of OS X, but I am getting quite bored of > make_ext.pl being rerun every time "make perl" is run, see below. > > It only takes couple of seconds in this box but it's still pretty dumb. > > In slower/older boxes starting miniperl 101 times (I counted) is > not just dumb but outright painful. IIRC, it replaced running EU:MM for each of those extensions, which was massively slower than what we have now. Surely you're not suggesting we skip extension building entirely if it's been done once? What then happens if one is making changes to an extension?Thread Previous | Thread Next