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On Monday-201608-08 8:10, Craig A. Berry wrote: > 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? Not suggesting that. Saying that what we have now could be better. For example, does a new miniperl need to be started 101 times? > What then happens if one is making changes to an extension? >Thread Previous | Thread Next