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authorMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2023-01-11 21:40:04 -0500
committerMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2023-01-11 21:59:40 -0500
commit054b02ce444c6c65dc5cfa68e67741ce43e76b1b (patch)
tree789ae9a85820118c48513ec3dbb9a5b421d0be80
parentf15852df5f71631cfc4f03c0b8897b0a20fc79d3 (diff)
downloadautomake-054b02ce444c6c65dc5cfa68e67741ce43e76b1b.tar.gz
dirstamp: use append too instead of truncate
We changed the depfiles logic to use >> (append) instead of > (truncate) due to it being slightly faster & nicer to the disk. Do the same with the dirstamp files as we only need the files to exist -- we don't care about their content, and we never put anything in them ourselves. If someone else were to, we clean them up normally with `make clean`. Simple test case on my Linux 6.1 w/ext4 on SSD: @: > foo.txt for (i = 0; i < 1000000; ++i) close(open("foo.txt", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666)); -> 769 msec @: >>foo.txt for (i = 0; i < 1000000; ++i) close(open("foo.txt", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666)); -> 2 sec
-rw-r--r--bin/automake.in2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/automake.in b/bin/automake.in
index 306913279..1c13a3187 100644
--- a/bin/automake.in
+++ b/bin/automake.in
@@ -7902,7 +7902,7 @@ sub require_build_directory
$output_rules .= ("$dirstamp:\n"
. "\t\@\$(MKDIR_P) $directory\n"
- . "\t\@: > $dirstamp\n");
+ . "\t\@: >>$dirstamp\n");
return $dirstamp;
}