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From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-08 09:49:43


David Abrahams wrote:

> > > I had some thoughts:
> > > 1. Busywaiting while watching the clock to see when it rolls over: that
> > > would cut the delays in half, or more.
> >
> > I think this is good idea.
> >
> > > 2. Explicitly changing modification times to force rebuilding.
> >
> > Too troublesome for me. Users will be forgetting to do it.
>
> You wouldn't leave it up to users. Since all of the filesystem
> modifications go through the testing class, it would always handle that
> problem.

Oh... I'll just make all methods that modify filesystem wait until time is no
longer equal to the time when "run_build_system" was last invoked.

- Volodya

 


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