[bug #65533] gmake-4.4.1 has a performance regression: at least the nwchem project now builds much slower

Martin Dorey <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:52:37 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Follow-up Comment #11, bug #65533 (group make):


> Are there any other changes that went into 4.4 that could have caused such a
> performance regression?

I didn't have anything else in mind and, even looking through the NEWS,
nothing's jumping out, so I'm surprised to have seemingly been right.  As sir
is obviously a golfer, being unafraid to apply patches and rebuild, building a
version from a git checkout before the first related change would, if it's
still slow, eliminate shell-export with more confidence.  git bisect always
feels like such a big hill to climb but...


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