Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 10:08:30 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@freebsd.org> To: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: -CURRENT compilation time Message-ID: <CAGSa5y0FMwt8g4%2BmqFegvrgBzxJCwupB_RJqb52ZUQy9EFB__Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey, I want to build -CURRENT again from sources. It's been a long time since I hadn't done that. I'm shocked by the compilation time. I started the whole thing on Friday night and Monday morning it's still in stage 4.2 (building libraries). Through occasional glancing at the screen over the weekend, it seems obvious to me that the compilation time is utterly dominated by LLVM. Compiling C++ seems extremely CPU heavy and this is made worse by the fact LLVM is built twice (once for build/cross tools, once for the actual world). So OK, my CPU is not the most powerful out there but it's still decent [1]. So I have a couple of questions coming to my mind: 1. Is there any optimization I could benefit from? (I'm sure there's a knob to use the existing compiler instead of building a cross-compiler.) 2. More generally, isn't this compilation time not considered as a problem for developers? This seems to terribly slow down the iteration time for people working on the build system. I wouldn't be surprised if this drove people away from working on/improving that area. [1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-6260U+%40+1.80GHz&id=2671 Cheers, -- Jeremie Le Hen jlh@FreeBSD.org
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