[CMake-Promote] cmake is fast

[E. Wing]

I remember a project that experimented with adding libtool to the
autotools chain. The build process became painfully slow after libtool
was introduced. I never timed it, but 2x seems easily likely. The
build process became so slow, the developers reverted the changes.

I also experiemented with libtool once and remember it being painfully
slow with my own trivial stuff.

Once you pull out the libtool, the speed difference between CMake and
autotools might not be as significant. But I can't really say for
sure.

-Eric

On 10/4/06, Brandon J. Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bill Hoffman wrote:
> > Here is another benchmark of cmake vs autotools:
> >
> > http://blog.qgis.org/?q=node/16
> >
>
> I was surprised that the speed of the generated makefiles is 75%
> faster.  I wonder if that's widely observable; does CMake generate less
> piggish makefiles than Autotools?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every
>
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