PATCH: Improve Java build times

Mon May 20 20:03:00 GMT 2002

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Now I hope I'll be forgiven for my earlier Makefile.am change which
> was accused of making things slower. :-) 

Yes. Mark, you are cool ;-)
I havn't had a chance to test it yet, but I like the look of this patch. 
If I understand it correctly, by calling scandir() on each directory 
that class/java files are to be read from, and then searching the 
directory entries to determine existance of a file, you may actually 
have also solved the os X/cygwin case insensitive file system bug, or at 
least gone a long way towards it!
> Would you review the patches
> carefully and comment on what you see as the downside risks? Do you
> think the upside is worth those risks?

I'm all for putting this on the branch, as long as noone else finds any 
major problems or risks associated with it.
regards
Bryce.