Michael Marcin wrote:
How does it compare speed wise with other solutions? Fast incremental builds are a very nice thing to have. There have been a few discussions on the sweng mailing list where CMake has been brought up and I don't think I ever saw performance reports for it. Generally the attitude there seems to be that Jam is best and KJam is better than that. How does CMake compare?
The KDE folks and other projects have found CMake to be much faster than there previous build tools: "CMake searches for dependencies several times faster than the './configure' process did. CMake builds KDE 4's kdelibs about 40% faster than autotools build KDE 3.5.6's kdelibs, mostly due to a lack of libtool in the toolchain for CMake. The CMake toolchain (for UNIX) looks something like: cmake + make, whereas the autotools chain for KDE 3.5.6 looked something like: automake + autoconf + libtool + make + sh + perl + m4." http://dot.kde.org/1172083974/ http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/2006-April/002232.html I am not sure how CMake compares to Jam. -Bill