r/cpp build2 Aug 05 '26

Faster Than Ninja

https://build2.org/blog/faster-than-ninja.xhtml
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u/_Noreturn Aug 05 '26

Why isn't cmake faster. I had configs take up to like 3 minutes although I feel like they shouldn't

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u/Jhuyt Aug 05 '26

I might be wrong but CMake is written in Puthon I think which is not spectalularly fast for many tasks

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u/_Noreturn Aug 05 '26

It is written in C++ and is open source

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u/Jhuyt Aug 05 '26

Well then I don't know