Works by generating .d files with scaninc, allowing for parallel dependency scanning. This massively improves warm-up time. Building starts almost instantly now.
Benchmarks courtesy of lunos4026 on discord:
Subsequent builds are ~35s faster
Environment: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS running on WSL (1).
System: i3 2120, 4GB of RAM (Single Channel, DDR3, 659.4 MHz), Seagate BarraCuda 1TB HDD 7200RPM, Windows 11 22H2 (Build 22621.2283).
Clean Pret/Pokeemerald Master branch:
real 1m55.464s
user 0m28.563s
sys 0m55.313s
2nd `time make -j$(nproc)` pass:
real 0m40.738s
user 0m17.703s
sys 0m11.922s
Icedude907's build-scaninc-speed branch:
real 2m16.833s
user 0m27.234s
sys 0m54.859s
2nd `time make -j$(nproc)` pass:
real 0m4.546s
user 0m0.156s
sys 0m0.719s
Description
Works by generating
.dfiles withscaninc, allowing for parallel dependency scanning. This massively improves warm-up time. Building starts almost instantly now.Benchmarks courtesy of lunos4026 on discord: Subsequent builds are ~35s faster
Discord contact info
icedude907