On 3/19/21 10:14 AM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:04 AM Andrew Haley <a...@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. -- Andrew Haley (he/him) Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> https://keybase.io/andrewhaley EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
