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2011-04-05: Tuesday.

Ollie left rather early in the morning.
Up, to work, poked at mail, and got stuck into trying to work out why an incremental make in writer does 700k stat system calls. After some digging, it turns out glob is the culprit, always statting, knocked up a near doubling of performance there in twenty lines or so, still more to go I'm sure, but parsing 50Mb of dependencies (just for writer) is going to take at least -some- time I suspect.
Chewed through the rest of the mail queue. Preload staff meeting; got stuck into Linux snapshot builds, and re-wrote the nightmare of ninja shell that was autogen.sh. Then dug into making relocate cope with the new gnumake deps.
Bed early, feeling awful - the next round in the cycle of coughs & chest infections no doubt.

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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)