[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] is configure+make dead yet?

[Gordon Keiser]

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> On Behalf Of Óscar Fuentes
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 5:05 PM
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> Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] is configure+make dead yet?
> 
> Gordon Keiser <gkeiser at arxan.com> writes:
> 
> >> > CMake generates gigantic project files for IDEs like Visual Studio
> >> > and Xcode, which causes those IDEs to behavior very poorly, with
> >> > long project load times and sluggish overall performance. It's a
> >> > significant productivity problem.
> >
> > devenv.exe llvm.sln /Build "Release|Win32" completes a couple of
> > minutes faster on Windows for me than make -j8 does on Mac/Linux on
> > similarly spec'd processors.  I've seen several comments like this
> > (including mentions of VS having poor multithreading), but I haven't
> > seen this in reality.
> 
> The difference you observe might be caused because on Windows
> LLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD defaults to just "X86", while on the rest of
> platforms it is "all".
>

I've overridden that to X86 & ARM on both platforms.  I'll note that a partial rebuild is a bit quicker in make.

-Gordon
 
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