Paul Smith 49ee105c68 Fix performance degradation introduced by the second expansion feature. ...

I did this by adding intelligence into the algorithm such that the
second expansion was only actually performed when the prerequisite list
contained at least one "$", so we knew it is actually needed.

Without this we were using up a LOT more memory, since every single
target (even ones never used by make) had their file variables
initialized.  This also used a lot more CPU, since we needed to create
and populate a new variable hash table for every target.

There is one issue remaining with this feature: it leaks memory.  In
pattern_search() we now initialize the file variables for every pattern
target, which allocates a hash table, etc.  However, sometimes we
recursively invoke pattern_search() (for intermediate files) with an
automatic variable (alloca() I believe) as the file.  When that function
returns, obviously, the file variable hash memory is lost.

2005-04-13 03:16:33 +00:00

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