[Gllug] Make was Bison question

[Paul Roberts]

Pete Ryland <pdr at pdr.cx> writes:

> Nah, the problem lies with the fact that when you invoke javac on a .java
> file, it will compile it *and all its dependencies*.  So, your for loop
> above is slow, not just because javac is written in java, but because you
> will end up compiling a lot of stuff multiple times.  This is what ant
> fixes.

I may be wrong, but I thought javac worked like make, in that it only
compiles code if the class file is out of date in relation to the
source-code. Is that not right?

Cheers, - Paul
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