I don’t think that was premature optimization, just some code from an old fart that had already been programming in the era where processors had reasons to use it:
Since then, I learned that since Windows Vista and up has timeout command that just waits:
timeout /t 600 /nobreak
Two parameters are used:
/nobreak
does not stop waiting when you press a key
/t #
waits # seconds
(the example is 10 minutes, I use it to regularly run FlushFileCache.exe or FlushMem.exe to empty the Windows file chache and release memory – often more than a gigabyte – back to Windows)
There is also sleep.exe, but that requires the Windows Resource Kit or Windows Server 2000/2003.
if exist PostBuild.bat call PostBuild.bat $(Platform) $(Config) $(OutputDir)
And then the PostBuild.bat script calls a Python script so that I can write my scripts in a real language.
I actually impose the build actions in a shared option set that I reference from all of my projects. That way I enforce consistency and predictability.
I know others use tools like FinalBuilder but building is so important that I feel it’s worth my effort in rolling my own tooling.
– David Heffernan Feb 14 at 20:24
One of the easy things in *nix is to set the value of an environment with the output of a command.
Something like this is possible in Windows too, but you have to instruct Windows to keep an empty set of delimiters to capture the full first line.
There is also a small but important difference between Windows and *nix upon command failure: *nix will always return an empty value, but in Windows you must make sure to empty the value first.
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