> I worry about adopting unity build because while it makes clean builds
> faster, it also slows down incremental builds. As a developer, I rarely do
> clean builds, I mostly do incremental builds so this would likely make my
> experience worse?
We have some preliminary data that says incremental builds will be OK, but not
a full benchmark.
Here’s a full benchmark I propose to test incremental builds:
Start 7 days ago in SVN history. Do a clean build.
SVN update forward by 24 hours. Do an incremental build. Time this
build.
Repeat 7 times. Average the results.
I think we should run this benchmark per project as we adopt unity builds,
starting with WTF.
In the beginning, when we adopt unity builds for WTF and then JavaScriptCore,
the benchmark can build just these projects and stop. Once we get to WebCore
and WebKit, the benchmark will take longer. Oh well.
If we get the bundling right, this benchmark should show obvious speedups. If
it shows no speedup or a slowdown, we’ve done something wrong and we need to
reconsider.
Geoff
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