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In article <1992Jul21.162641.5897@tamsun.tamu.edu> tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya) writes:

>I am wondering if I can increase my developement time and reduce the
>wear and tear on the disk by using a better makefile construct.

(Don't you want to decrease your developement time [or do they pay you
by the hour...?])

>   cl -c a.c
>   cl -c b.c
>   cl -c c.c
>
>   and so on for all those source files which are out of date.
>Obviously, for each such source file there is an overhead of
>loading and releasing the compiler. A better construct would be
>  cl -c a.c b.c c.c ...

Borland's MAKE allows "batching" of files.  That is, you can write:

	bcc -c {x.c }
	bcc -c {y.c }
	etc

and it will collect them intelligently, if possible.

The other thing, that does make a massive difference, is to put the
compiler on a RAM disk.

(When compiling DVGLUE, this is an absolute essential!  Though, one of
these days, I'm going to re-write the DVGLUE makefile to use batching.)

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