Shane McIntosh [[email protected]] 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.
That sounds like a good idea in general. Looking at your list at > http://sailhome.cs.queensu.ca/~shane/content/qt_hotspots.txt I wonder a bit how e.g. xmlpatterns can be considered a "hotspot" that according to your definition "changes often". The actual code has not been changed much for a while except for occasional merges and the annual bumps in copyright headers. My gut feeling is that any refactoring there is not worthwhile. > I’m happy to provide a more detailed Qt dataset when I > return to my lab next week. It would be nice to see some reason ("numbers") why files ended up on the list. Best regards, Andre' _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
