Re: Time to compile

Derek Teaney wrote:

> I have a list of about 40 files and it takes
> quite some time (12 s) to decide what to do compile. 
> Would 400 files then take 2 minutes?

12 seconds is a long time.  Are these files very big?

A-A-P computes a checksum to find out if the file contents has changed.
If your processor is slow this may take a while.

I have worked with Aap and very many files without big delays.  It does
depend on the speed of your machine, of course.  Only checking
timestamps will be faster, but less accurate.  And after doing "touch
file" a file may seem outdated, causing a lot of work to be done even
when its contents didn't actually change.  That's wasting time then.

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