Re: -CURRENT compilation time

Am 07.09.21 um 15:51 schrieb David Chisnall:
> On 06/09/2021 20:34, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
>> With the option WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN=yes the world build time is 2.5
>> times faster (real or user+sys), down from 48 min to 19.5 min real
>> time.
> 
> Note that building LLVM with the upstream CMake + Ninja build system is
> *significantly* faster on a decent multicore machine than the FreeBSD
> bmake-based in-tree version.
> 
> One of the things I'd love to prototype if I had time is a CMake-based build
> system for FreeBSD so that we could get all of the tooling integration from the
> compile_commands.json, reuse LLVM's (and any other contrib things that use
> CMake) build system without having to recreate it, and be able to use ninja, to
> build.

Wouldn't this break META_MODE?

I'd rather be able to continue building the world within a few minutes
(generally much less than 10 minutes, as long as there is no major LLVM
upgrade) than have a faster LLVM build and then a slower build of the world ...

Regards, STefan