One rookie performance mistake I’ve seen in GNU make makefiles is the use of $(shell) without := assignment. Of course I’m not the first person to write about this, but people are still making this mistake, and it’s so easy to fix, it’s really tragic that it’s still out there. UPDATE: read more about GNU [Read More →]

Are you using the best method for invoking submakes in a recursive make based build? A simple change can turn on the afterburners by unlocking parallelism.