CMake replacing Autotools?

[Andrew Haley]

On 3/19/21 10:14 AM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> 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?

Nothing, I suspect.

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

Weren't many Cygwin tools changed to use spawn() instead? It's been
a while.

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