<div class="gmail_extra">Hi Robert, <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Erik Pearson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erik@defun-web.com" target="_blank">erik@defun-web.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Robert,<br><br>Thanks for the Sunday afternoon reply.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Robert Goldman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpgoldman@sift.info" target="_blank">rpgoldman@sift.info</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 4/22/12 Apr 22 -3:47 PM, Faré wrote:<br>
> Dear Erik,<br>
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>> ASDF assumes that since the system def file has not changed, the system<br>
>> hasn't been changed either (I know there has been discussion of this<br>
>> assumption.) But lets assume that at least part of the reason for that is<br>
>> because it is very time consuming to check the entire set of files every<br>
>> time the developer wants to recompile and load just a single file.<br>
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> I don't think that's true, but my head hurts just thinking about it</div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>Sorry, this was me being confused by my own tracing of asdf operations, and not thinking before I typed. I had placed a debugging line in the call to "safe-file-write-date" to see how ofen this is called in during a load. I thought it was not being called on source files just .asd files, but this was incorrect. I had probably already changed something, or been confused about the multiple calls made on systems -- the first call will get the file write date on both source and compiled (if any), but subsequent calls only on the compiled.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>Erik. <br></font></span></div></div></div>
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