CMake replacing Autotools?

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:04 AM Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

What is so slow with gmake? Rule processing?

It also depends on the platform, I guess. Eg on Cygwin, the fork emulation
is extremely slow.


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