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[QUOTE="occitan, post: 4815014"]
The size of the problem is not our choice.  Huge complex build systems
(templates generating headers and embedded SQL, which generates C,
which generate objects, libs, programs and documentation) quickly adds
up to many thousands of files.  For each one we have the choice of
calculating things repeatedly or remembering our findings and
decisions.  Preferring speed in the old space vs. time dilemma, doesn't
imply a flawed design to me.  Now when our interpreter gets huge as it
does, that's surely not primarily the booleans.  But that doesn't mean
not to see if they can sensibly be compressed.  It turned out not to be
the case, so that's that.

That doesn't mean our design is anywhere near perfect.  In the world of
free software everybody is welcome to try and improve things.  That's
how I got into makepp, having long suffered the attrocities of
recursive gmake.  And then the boundless possibilities of make paired
with Perl wetted my appetite.

best regards
Daniel
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