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		stonefroot on Aug 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poor man's IFTTT in 3 lines of code "make is crazy fast" Make calls the shell in order to run programs, correct? (IOW, does make call execve directly, as the shell does?)

lloeki on Aug 29, 2012 [–]

Indeed, execve in exec_command (job.c). That does not make it slow, since it's the very last part of the game, and one you could not really do without.

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