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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fastmake is a
program that is used mainly by software developers to maintain software
build process. Fastmake is one of the make programs family. The most
similar make program is GNU make. Fastmake differs from GNU make in that
it contains additional features that extend Makefile syntax and increase
program speed. Fastmake was started in 2005 as a replacement for dmake
build tool. That years the Makefile syntax was as in dmake. In 2008
Fastmake was published and became available for downloading. Since then
Makefile syntax has been moving towards GNU make. This is because GNU
make is widely used and therefore there is more chance for Fastmake to
be useful.