Re: Optimization request

[Daniel Pfeiffer]

"Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> skribis:
> %% Daniel Pfeiffer <address@hidden> writes:

>   dp> Since even on Unix these calls don't come for free either, I'd
>   dp> like to suggest that you take up the concept of Perl's system
>   dp> function.  That scans the string passed for shell meta-characters
>   dp> and, if none are found, splits it up on whitespace and executes
>   dp> the command itself.

> GNU make already does this...

Oh, great!  Sorry to have wasted your time then.

Daniel