Hi, Given the discussion about build times I decided test a handful of ports to see if we could reduce time spent just by converting to either CMake or Meson depending on what upstream offers.
Hardware: Oracle VM, 4x Neoverse N1 cores, 24Gb of RAM Software: FreeBSD 14.0, Poudriere (devel) 3.4.99.20231211 archivers/zstd gmake --> meson audio/flac libtool --> cmake audio/opus gmake, libtool --> meson graphics/lcms2 libtool --> meson graphics/webp libtool --> cmake multimedia/libmediainfo libtool --> cmake multimedia/libzen libtool --> cmake multimedia/mp4v2 gmake, libtool --> cmake net/libngtcp2 libtool --> cmake www/libnghttp3 libtool --> cmake www/libnghttp2 libtool --> cmake Makefile / Autotools [00:08:20] Built ports: www/libnghttp2 archivers/zstd multimedia/libzen graphics/tiff www/libnghttp3 ftp/curl audio/flac graphics/lcms2 graphics/webp multimedia/mp4v2 audio/opus net/libngtcp2 multimedia/libmediainfo [132aarch64-dev-default] [2023-12-17_12h42m54s] [committing] Queued: 13 Built: 13 Failed: 0 Skipped: 0 Ignored: 0 Fetched: 0 Tobuild: 0 Time: 00:08:18 CMake / Meson [00:05:16] Built ports: archivers/zstd www/libnghttp2 multimedia/libzen graphics/tiff www/libnghttp3 audio/flac ftp/curl graphics/lcms2 graphics/webp multimedia/libmediainfo multimedia/mp4v2 net/libngtcp2 audio/opus [132aarch64-dev-default] [2023-12-17_13h06m03s] [committing] Queued: 13 Built: 13 Failed: 0 Skipped: 0 Ignored: 0 Fetched: 0 Tobuild: 0 Time: 00:05:13 It may not be the most exact benchmark but results are reproducible. Keep in mind that this is more or less a free performance improvement without any hardware modifications. While some projects benefit more than others there might be cases where switching isn't possible without upstreaming changes but it's likely worth the effort in the long run as you in general see an improvment. I'd also like to remind people that while CMake and Meson can take a little while to build initially gmake and/or libtool also have their dependency chain so none are "free" and the difference is likely less than what you expect. Best regards, Daniel (diizzy@)
