Build profiling using Conan?

[devlpr]

What is your question?

Would Conan be a good fit for adding build profiling since it executes all of the build commands? Having a graph of all the execution times would go a long way toward efficient builds.

Thanks in advance!

-Darin

Have you read the CONTRIBUTING guide?

• [X] I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide

[memsharded]

Hi @devlpr

yes, Conan has some mechanisms intended to be able to deal with some of these "meta-build" things:

• The hooks. You can use a post-build hook for example to submit the build time to your own metrics backend. There is a pre-build hook, maybe to start the timer. You could be collecting data as the binaries size or other stuff
• The metadata files. This is a way of storing files, together with packages, but that are not necessarily downloaded everytime with every package install.

Maybe for this specific use case, the hooks looks better.

[devlpr]

Thanks very much. We will look into this. We do have metrics collection already so this may not be too bad.

I really appreciate your response!

-Darin