CVS commit: src/usr.bin/make

["Roland Illig" <rillig%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    src
Committed By:   rillig
Date:           Sun Dec 27 14:41:25 UTC 2020

Modified Files:
        src/usr.bin/make: var.c

Log Message:
make(1): remove outdated comment about string comparisons

Back in 1993, the variables in a context were stored in a linked list.
Searching such a list indeed required literally thousands of calls to
strcmp.  In make.h 1.22 from 1999-09-15, the linked list was replaced
with a hash table, requiring much fewer string comparisons.  Since then,
the rationale doesn't apply anymore.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.771 -r1.772 src/usr.bin/make/var.c

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