Re: Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

Hi Björn,

On Monday 07 of December 2009, Björn Michaelsen wrote:

> > Additionally, and since you mentioned the desire to have only one
> > make instance - last time someone tried to have gnu make hold all of
> > OOo's dependency tree in one process, that guy (Kai Backman) ended
> > up with absolutely pathetic performance & ridiculous mem usage.
>
> I did more than a few scalability tests with GNU make. There is a magic
> barrier on the number of rules it can handle (above ~10000
> scalability grinds to a halt),

Any chance to profile GNU make in this scenario, please?  May be there is some 
stupid mistake there, similar to the one in mkdepend 
(http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73081 - the complexity of 
it grew exponentially)?

Thank you,
Kendy