Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Feeling sick today (stomach flu), so I spent a little time doing something not too hard on my brain, finished the 'build' Makefiles for spice-gtk, in preparation for the talk on 'build' I'm giving on December 7.
The makefile is a bit complicated, because there are several steps along the way, generated files, etc.
The build time results are promising (all numbers are times in seconds, best of 3):
| Build (-j) | Build | Autoconf (-j) | Autoconf | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clean build from git | 25 | 45 | 95 | 143 |
| Incremental build (log.h) | 18.1 | 34.9 | 19.3 | 61.3 |
| Incremental build (snd_codec.c) | 1.9 | 1.9 | 3.0 | 3.9 |
| Incremental build (spice-client.c) | 1.7 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 3.8 |
The maintenance complexity is another aspect where there is a real difference:
| Build | Autoconf | |
|---|---|---|
| Makefile | 442 lines, 13K | 939 linees, 26K |
| configure.ac | (None) | 710 lines, 24K |
| Total | 442 lines, 13K | 1649 lines, 50K |
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