[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] TargetParser - Always build all table-gen files?

[Rowan, Jim]

On Mar 10, 2015, at 4:39 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
> 
>> Do you have any info on how long it takes to do this on a slow target, or on a windows machine?
> 
> On my ARM chromebook2, 4 Cortex-A15 cores, after llvm-tblgen has been
> compiled (took 2min40s), both "ninja -j6 libLLVMARMInfo.a" and "ninja
> -j6 libLLVMAArch64Info.a" up until the first cpp file took 14 seconds.
> 
> I assume other backends will have the same size / time. We have 13
> back-ends, assuming you go from building one to building all 13,
> you'll add 3 more minutes to the build. Bearing in mind that a full
> build on that box takes around one hour, it's not that much, really.

Agreed.   That is not so significant that it should impact the choice.

Jim Rowan
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