[CMake] Compilation speed with CMake/NMake combination, making
it faster?
Sylvain Benner
benner at virtools.com
Tue Dec 11 11:20:05 EST 2007
>> * We're using an NMake build tree, is NMake particularly
>> slow? Do any of the other makes work more efficiently?
>>
>
> Be aware that nmake builds are much slower than using devenv, as nmake starts a cl.exe process for every single file,
> whereas devenv calls cl.exe with several source files. This costs, due to the high process overhead on Windows
Maybe using compilation units might help.With devenv, we get up to x9
faster compilation time using them (usually only one or two compilation
units for each project).
--Sylvain
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