Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

On Monday 28 May 2007 03:43, you wrote:
Maybe I should look at the inner workings of cmake and gmake. Maybe
they have some good ideas. However having looked through the source
code of make, and also looking at the cvs logs, it does seem to be well
written. The only possibility I see of making it go a lot faster is a
complete redesign, e.g. my just in time idea for processing variables.

Stephen

Just in time (jit), if I remember correctly, is a term used by java
interpreters which compile the byte code into machine code!!! Perhaps this
could be developed for makefile's, especially bsd.*.mk.

This, I think, could be done in two ways:
1) Develop the bsd.*.mk files in C and link it in with make, or
2) Use the makefiles as source to compile into machine code (passibly via
C->ASM). The machine code could be created on demand, or cached and only
updated if the source makefile changes.

I am not sure if this could work or even if it will have any significant speed
increase. However if method 2 does work it has the potential to radically
increase the speed of ports _while_ maintaining the flexability.

All that will be needed is an API for the machine code and a compiler???

David

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