Hi Shane, On Monday 3. February 2014 22.39.27 Shane McIntosh wrote: > Hi Qt developers! > > My name is Shane. I’m a PhD student at Queen’s University in Canada. > > I’ve been working on an approach for detecting build hotspots, i.e., files > that not only take a long time to rebuild, but also change often. We think > that these files are ideal candidates for refactoring that could shave time > off of incremental builds that are really impacting software teams. > > We came up with an approach that I presented last weekend at FOSDEM ( slides > are available here: > http://www.slideshare.net/shanemcintosh/identifying-hotspots-in-software-bu > ild-process ). One of the projects that we analyzed was Qt. > > I bumped into Tobias at FOSDEM and he suggested that I post the list of Qt > hotspots here. So, I’ve made the hotspot list available here: > http://sailhome.cs.queensu.ca/~shane/content/qt_hotspots.txt > > I’m happy to provide a more detailed Qt dataset when I return to my lab next > week.
Interesting stuff :) How do you determine that a particular header file is the "hot spot"? (I didn't understand that part from the slide set) Is that header file commonly included in other files that result in long-building object files? Simon _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
