Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of dev-utils/ninja in ebuilds

2013-05-25 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 5/25/13 12:45 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > You may see small (~60 seconds) difference when compiling Chromium due > to faster target dependency resolution. You may also see faster builds in general because ninja is designed for very high degree of parallelization as compared to make. >> From a ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of dev-utils/ninja in ebuilds

2013-05-25 Thread Luca Barbato
On 5/25/13 9:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2013 14:48:30 -0400 Mike Gilbert wrote: For those unaware, dev-util/ninja is a make-replacement created by one of the Chromium guys at Google. Its focus is on making incremental builds of large software faster. I've no idea how this would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of dev-utils/ninja in ebuilds

2013-05-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 05/25/2013 03:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > From an user perspective I was wondering if ninja in the Portage tree > makes use of this faster incremental builds feature. Should I expect > faster builds when trying this out? > No, you will not see any significant speed increase because we always s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of dev-utils/ninja in ebuilds

2013-05-25 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 25 May 2013 14:48:30 -0400 Mike Gilbert wrote: > For those unaware, dev-util/ninja is a make-replacement created by one > of the Chromium guys at Google. Its focus is on making incremental > builds of large software faster. I've no idea how this would work out, so I'm asking some questio

[gentoo-dev] Usage of dev-utils/ninja in ebuilds

2013-05-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
For those unaware, dev-util/ninja is a make-replacement created by one of the Chromium guys at Google. Its focus is on making incremental builds of large software faster. In the latest chromium ebuild (chromium-29.0.1516.3), we are using ninja instead of make. ninja auto-detects the number of jobs