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UCLOrengoGroup / cath-tools

Protein structure comparison tools such as SSAP and SNAP
http://cath-tools.readthedocs.io
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Build time is slow #59

Closed anadon closed 6 years ago

anadon commented 6 years ago

A significant enhancement you should consider is switching the cmake build backend to use ninja. It makes a pretty big difference. It is worth it.

tonyelewis commented 6 years ago

Thanks for contributing to cath-tools.

I'm not sure ninja is massively faster than make for complete builds (so long as you're using a sensible value for make's -j [N], --jobs[=N] option).

But, yes, ninja is very much faster for small, incremental (or even no-op) builds.

However, I don't think a project should impose that choice on the user. If anyone building cath-tools prefers ninja, they can pass -GNinja to cmake. That's what I do.