Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

#1

Post by fatbrowndog » Thu, Jun 06, 2024, 7:46 PM UTC

There's incredibuild, stashed.io, ccache, dcache , scache, FastBuild, BuildCache.

There's one more that was highlighted by HN. Its used by game companies. I can't seem to find the link. It was mentioned here on HN. Anyone have any ideas?

Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

#2

Post by Davidbrcz » Fri, Jun 07, 2024, 3:35 PM UTC

Unity builds ?

They are not a tool per se, but just a way to compile your project.

Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

#3

Post by Am4TIfIsER0ppos » Fri, Jun 07, 2024, 8:10 PM UTC

Davidbrcz wrote: post #2

Unity builds ? They are not a tool per se, but just a way to compile your project.

Unity here not being the name of the game engine but rather the idea of including all the sources into one file.

Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

#4

Post by arjvik » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 9:33 PM UTC

distcc?

Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

#5

Post by dieortin » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 9:44 PM UTC

Probably not what you’re thinking of, but Bazel? https://bazel.build

Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

#6

Post by ComputerGuru » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 9:49 PM UTC

distcc is probably the one game companies are biased towards.

Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

#7

Post by amelius » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 10:05 PM UTC

I'm using ccache, but apparently it does not work for linking. Any drop-in replacement I could use instead?

Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

#8

Post by bastijn » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 10:23 PM UTC

For others searching (alternative) generic build caching tool supporting mono-repos:

Nx - https://nx.dev/.

Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

#9

Post by samatman » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 10:29 PM UTC

Zig as a build system deserves a shout-out here. It can compile C and C++ projects, good cross-compiler story, and it caches.

Re: Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

#10

Post by ltbarcly3 » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 10:43 PM UTC

dieortin wrote: post #5

Probably 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.