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2016 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: D. Dunbar “A New Architecture for Building Software”

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Compilers, interpreters & program analysisTesting, debugging & developer tools

What it is

Daniel Dunbar of Apple presents llbuild, a framework for building build systems, at the 2016 LLVM Developers' Meeting. He argues that the traditional way C compilers integrate with build systems limits compile speed, and proposes a new architecture.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited in build-system and C++ compile-time threads as Apple's work on incremental builds and the design behind llbuild.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “has a presentation.”

    Presentation on llbuild's flexible build system design.

    Someone, 2017-11 · Recommendation · in “What's wrong with the default build tool for Scala”

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Topics: llbuild, llvm, clang, incremental builds, compile times

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