On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 06:13:47PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> > MSVC: Build ~35% faster by calling dumpbin just once per directory.
>
> I happened to notice that dory seems to have gotten no benefit at
> all from this patch, although the speed change is very apparent
> on some other MSVC critters such as whelk and woodlouse.
> Puzzling.
The author was using parallel builds (MSBFLAGS=/m), as was I. dory doesn't
seem to be doing so. I would have guessed more than zero improvement even
without parallelism. Puzzling, indeed.