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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: cmake + ninja vs autotools
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:17:50
Message-Id: ov3ir9$4pp$2@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cmake + ninja vs autotools by Georg Rudoy <0xd34df00d@gmail.com>
1 Georg Rudoy <0xd34df00d@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > 1. Doing a full clean build [..]
3 > the speed of make or ninja is hugely offset by the compilation speed,
4 > and their overhead is negligible.
5
6 It depends on the definition of negligible. For huge projects like
7 boost or chromium it is several minutes: That's why these projects
8 switched to ninja. Admittedly, for eix the difference is probably
9 only a few seconds on most systems.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cmake + ninja vs autotools Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>