Hi Marko, Where do I find Simon's changes? I'd like to give it a try.
Thanks Cris > On Jan 4, 2017, at 1:21 PM, marko kiiskila <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Cris, > > Simon Ratner has made a number of improvements to newt which should > help with the native Windows support. > > I have not had a chance to try those out (as I don’t have Windows setup), > so I don’t know what the exact state is. But they did seem pretty good. > I do recommend trying that out. And improving those, if necessary ;) > >> On Jan 4, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Cris Frusina <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Chris, >> >> Wondering if this is a Windows issue with docker. Those are good additions, >> looking forward to the implementation! >> >> Hopefully David has some free time and can give it a try on his end yo see >> if he gets the same performance issues. >> >> I'm going to try setting everything up on another Windows machine as a >> sanity check. >> >> Btw, thanks to everyone for actively helping out. >> >> Cheers, >> Cris >> >> >> >>> On Jan 4, 2017, at 11:45 AM, Christopher Collins <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Cris, >>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:32:37AM -0500, Cris Frusina wrote: >>>> I'm building my code on top of the bleprph app. I haven't done too >>>> much to it as I'm still just playing around with myNewt. I've added >>>> the nffs dependency and some custom code, most of it is still the >>>> same. >>>> >>>> It depends on the changes I make to the code, if I only change the >>>> main.c file the compile, build and sign would be about 2 to 3 min for >>>> any small change. This can go up to 5-7 min if the change requires to >>>> recompile some other dependencies. A full compile and build is about >>>> 20 to 30 min. >>> >>> Whoa, that's insane! A build definitely should not take that long. The >>> docker solution on non-Linux machines will be slower than native, but >>> not that much slower! It has been a while since I have used docker, so >>> I don't recall the exact build times, but I wouldn't expect a full >>> rebuild of bleprph to take longer than five minutes. If you're only >>> changing one file, the build time definitely should not exceed 10 >>> seconds. >>> >>> There are two planned speed improvements for newt. I don't think these >>> will fix the problem you're experiencing, but I wanted to mention them: >>> >>> 1. Multithreaded builds. This is analogous to make's "-j" option. This >>> is an obvious improvement that should greatly reduce build times, >>> particularly for full rebuilds. >>> >>> 2. Smarter YAML parsing. Newt has to do a lot of inefficient YAML file >>> processing to determine which files need to be rebuilt and how to build >>> them. This is especially noticeable in builds with a lot of syscfg >>> settings (particularly bluetooth). I can think of a change that should >>> give a pretty good speed improvement to this process. This should help >>> most in cases where only one or a few files need to be rebuilt. >>> >>> Chris >>> >> > >
