Re: [PATCH v3 09/20] kbuild: implement and use depcheck to check dependency timestamps

[Kees Cook]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 05:57:36PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 11:42:50AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 05:06:19PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > +static bool next_line(const char **pos, const char *end, struct line *line)
> >
> > There is a lot of string handling in here. I know you're going for speed,
> > but it just feels like a python script doing all this would be much more
> > readable without wrecking speed compared to C much. Yes, C will win out,
> > but the maintainability of this helper does not fill me with joy. :P
> 
> Well I had the LLM look at that and for an allmodconfig python's startup time
> would take 40s of CPU time _alone_ and it'd kill the no op improvement. So C it
> has to be :)

Yikes, that's huge. C it is. ;)

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Kees Cook