[CMake-Promote] cmake is fast

[William A. Hoffman]

At 12:06 AM 10/5/2006, Brandon J. Van Every 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?

I think it is libtool, but hey that is how you create libraries in a cross platform
way with autotools.   CMake does it as part of the makefiles which is faster.
This was the same reason for the speedup in kdelibs building.

-Bill