[CMake] Performance difference between SET and LIST ?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Alexandre.Feblot at thomsonreuters.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with a very long list, is there a performance difference between using
> SET and LIST to just declare a variable ?
>
> SET (var
> val1
> val2
> ...
> val2000)
>
> or
>
> SET(var)
> LIST(APPEND var
> val1
> val2
> ...
> val2000)

In this case there should be now performance difference.
If you would instead 2000 times append only one item each time, LIST(APPEND) 
is much faster.

Alex