On 5/4/18, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Well, the work's already done, and personally I think the code is
> cleaner after 9bf28f96c and bad51a49a regardless of whether there's any
> performance benefit. You could call 1f1cd9b5d a wart if you wanted.
> But we've done largely the same thing to pgindent, for one, in the past
> year or so, and I find that to be a usability improvement, independently
> of whether there's any build performance win. My editor gets cranky
> when files change under it for no reason.
Thanks for looking into that. I meant to do so, but it got stuck on
the back burner. I'm happy to report that, running non-parallel make
on my old laptop goes from over 5 minutes to about 5 seconds, when
touching a catalog file.
-John Naylor
