Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> writes: > | A clearly-safe improvement would be to have the recursive make record > | which dirs it recursed into and have recursive clean only clean those. > | That should get speedup without leaving workdirs. > > I suggested something like that (in a PR perhaps) some time ago, but the > suggestion wasn't taken very seriously. It would certainly help avoid > the excessive cleaning that happens now, but "rm -fr ..." is still always > going to be lots quicker... I didn't see that, but I don't know why - it seems like a clear win with no problems.
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