[coreboot] Using only one romcc copy

[Mats Erik Andersson]

Hello Carl-Daniel,

I did one round of timing the build processes:

Original make command:                      0m42.323s
My reduction and a clean start:             0m30.955s
After that a 'make clean' and renewed make: 0m23.081s

The timings might not be typical, but the time saving seems
to be substantial in the 'middle case' where only one romcc
needs to be built, as well as in the last case were romcc
is fully reused for both rom-images.

Since I only have used coreboot-v2, I have no knowledge
whether my utility could be applied also to coreboot-v3.

Best regards

Mats Erik Andersson


>Hi Mats,
>
>nice work.
>
>On 02.09.2008 00:13, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
>> I submit here a little utility that slightly rebuilds the python
>> generated makefiles
>>
>> 	targets/*/*/Makefile
>> 	targets/*/*/normal/Makefile
>> 	targets/*/*/fallback/Makefile
>>
>> in order to use a common copy of romcc, and to leave this compiler
>> until 'make build-clean' is issued. If the result is to peoples
>> liking, the corresponding changes should be implemented in the
>> master copies used by 'buildtargets'.
>>   
>
>Have you measured the speedup for this? Is it noticeable?
>
>Regards,
>Carl-Daniel
>
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