Unity builds ? They are not a tool per se, but just a way to compile your project.
Also known as jumbo and single/combined source file builds.
Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?
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Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?
#12If you've upvoted that HN story/comment that mentioned that tool, you may be able to find it via:
https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndog
https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndog&comments...
Both links are only visible to you
Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?
#13Probably not what you’re thinking of, but Bazel? https://bazel.build
Bazel isn't anything like what they are describing. Also, bazel is an incredibly miserable tool to use.
One of Bazels core principles is mass-scale distributed caching, and lots of the design decisions such as repeatability, correctness and deterministic building exist to that effect.
For individuals it's a pain to setup, but it's not built for them, or startups. Instead for enterprises who can dedicate a fully manned team to its maintenance
Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?
#14For others searching (alternative) generic build caching tool supporting mono-repos: Nx - https://nx.dev/ .
In my experience NX is hot garbage.
Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?
#15Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?
#16I'm using ccache, but apparently it does not work for linking. Any drop-in replacement I could use instead?
Sccache (from Mozilla is a drop in replacement)
Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?
#17Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?
#18Look at https://earthly.dev/
But ideally we need more info - language, env and etc. for example both CircleCI and Gradle match your current ask but something tells me you need something else
Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?
#19Probably not what you’re thinking of, but Bazel? https://bazel.build
Specifically: https://bazel.build/remote/caching
Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?
#20Incredibuild is a pretty good product. Though there's nothing else out there that I know of that's similar.
Does anyone know?
> Incredibuild (at the very least) redirects file io back to the original machine and so the executable running doesn't really know what machine it's on.
I know MPI runs nicer on a networked drive but isn't necessarily transparent
Plan 9 can do most of this with some scripting...