From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:32:29 +0200

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> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
> 
> > That doesn't make it any more intuitive.
> 
> Flexibility comes with some cost.

GLIBC is overly flexible, to the point of being painful.

It is designed in such a way that you cannot even do a fully parallel
build.  It can only parallelize in one directory at a time.

It stats files like crazy, in every subdirectory it visits, in order
to implement this prioritization scheme.

It is the most inefficient build system that I am aware of for such an
important code base.
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