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- From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: optimistic compiling
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.161831.1901@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov18.230204.1329@Veritas.COM>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:18:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.230204.1329@Veritas.COM> joshua@Veritas.COM (Joshua Levy) writes:
- >I want to try implmenting "optimistic compiling" with emacs.
- >
- >Optimistic compiling is simple: everytime an editor saves a .c
- >file, it forks a job to compile it in the background. If a
- >previous job is compiling the same file, it is killed first.
- >
- >The idea is this: if you modify several .c files, all but the
- >last one will be .o files by the time you hit the main make
- >command. This assumes you are working on a machine which can
- >compile and edit without slowing down the edits much.
-
- While you're at it, you may as well run "make" whenever you save a .h
- file. No?
-
- -Joel
-