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by IshKebab 147 days ago
My work uses this and it's slooooooow. Would not recommend.
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elitepleb 147 days ago
the command file generator is usually last to blame for a slow compile, making it output a cmake/ninja/make project would not speed up a poorly structured compilation tree at all
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junon 147 days ago
I don't believe xmake is a command file generator, is it?
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elitepleb 147 days ago
it has a feature to output such files, see https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake?tab=readme-ov-file#generat...
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willaaaaaaa 147 days ago
is that so? my experience's quite good
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warmwaffles 147 days ago
It's fast. I don't know if they are conflating the actual compiler being slow with xmake executing it.
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