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Heuristic adaptation of compilation order: desirable? feasible?


From: Joachim Wuttke
Subject: Heuristic adaptation of compilation order: desirable? feasible?
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 20:19:51 +0200
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I would like to propose a new option to the 'make' command
which instructs the software to change the order of execution
of same-level rules according to past success or failure,
in order to reduce average turn-around times in software
development.

Consider a target T, which depends on components C_i (i=1,..n),
which in turn depend on a root component R. Suppose 'make T'
failed with an error in component C_j. The user modifies file R,
and reruns 'make T'.

As per now, Make will process C_1, .., C_n.

However, in a typical software development situation, the
compilation is much more likely to fail again on C_j than
on any other single component. Therefore, it would be
rational for Make to change the compilation order to
C_j, C_(j+1), .., C_n, C_1, .., C_(j-1).

Implementation would require Make to store and retrieve
information about the last compilation outcome, possibly
in a hidden file ".make.result" or similar.

This would be a considerable modification, and therefore
should not be enacted by default. Therefore I propose to
add a command-line option that enables logging and
heuristically modified compilation order.

Would you agree that such enhanced functionality is desirable?
Would it be feasible within GNU Make's current architecture?

- Joachim


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