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Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:12:33 -0500
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat()
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"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> I know this would only address half the problem but I wonder if it would make
> sense to cache the results of ReadFile() so that separate checks for symbolic
> links and executables would result in only 1 ReadFile() call.  This seems
> like a nice general optimization which wouldn't be so "gross"...
> 

Great minds must think alike.

Earnie.

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