CMake replacing Autotools?

[Andrew Haley]

On 3/19/21 9:22 AM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>> 2. More choices to actually build the project: Use integrated build
>> tools of IDEs (Visual Studio, Xcode) or use Ninja, which is faster than
>> gmake
>>
> Is gmake really where we lose time? Did you analyze this or is this just an
> assumption? I would have thought it's things like single threaded jmod,
> jlink, and subprocess spawning.

I'm sure it is. The other slow thing is linking HotSpot.

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