I've seen a small following in "memoized build systems" as an alternative to the traditional approach of building a dependency tree, but these projects are still emerging and its difficult finding information on this approach. Does anyone have real world experience of the strengths/weaknesses of these systems in large projects compared to the more well known systems like cmake and its current generators? One concern is how parallelism would be handled, but apparently there is some support for that.
mem http://srp.github.com/mem/getting-started.html https://github.com/srp/mem/blob/master/doc/source/mem.rst - memoization fbuild https://github.com/felix-lang/fbuild/ https://github.com/felix-lang/fbuild/raw/master/docs/introducing-fbuild.markdown http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8wezu/fbuild_01_build_system_released_with_cross/ - memoization, parallelism (is used to build the felix language) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105894 "I believe the key insight that we all independently made is that we can use the procedural execution stack for the dependency tree, and cache the function arguments and results to avoid work duplication. I believe this helps someone reason about what's going on in the build system compared to the declarative make systems because you can easily trace the inputs and outputs of some dependency." wonderbuild http://retropaganda.info/~bohan/work/sf/psycle/branches/bohan/wonderbuild/wonderbuild/README http://retropaganda.info/~bohan/work/sf/psycle/branches/bohan/wonderbuild/benchmarks/time.xml - memoization, fast, parallelism memoize http://benno.id.au/blog/2008/06/06/memoize-build-framework fabricate http://code.google.com/p/fabricate/ http://code.google.com/p/fabricate/wiki/HowItWorks - finds dependencies automatically - "inspired by Bill McCloskey's memoize, but fabricate works under Windows as well by using file access times instead of strace if strace is not available on your file system" _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
