[webkit-dev] Growing tired of long build times? Check out this awesome new way to speed up your build... soon (HINT: It's not buying a new computer)

[Dean Jackson]

> On 29 Aug 2017, at 10:37 am, Keith Miller <keith_miller at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Are you growing tired of long cat naps while waiting 45 minutes for WebKit to build? (I’ve definitely never done this 🤐!)

Never.

> Do you want WebKit to build up to 3-4x faster on a clean build?*

Of course.

> Does seeing your incremental build… stay the same sound good?

Yes!

I don't have any knowledge of build systems or how to make things faster, but I do want to mention things that are important to my workflow that I hope this change won't make worse. I'm a little worried that this appears to be moving away from Xcode in a manner that will make development more difficult. Maybe I've misunderstood some of the suggestions.

I want to:

- be able to do most (all) of my editing in Xcode
- have code completion and symbol navigation work very nicely in Xcode
- build and run from Xcode
- build and run from Xcode much faster than I can today
- use Xcode's debugger UI
- sometimes have just a single project open in Xcode (e.g. WebCore) and build only that part (so I can skip it even having to think about other parts)

Will the new magic build system offer these? Will it break any of them?

If calling build can mean a new Xcode project is created, will I be able to open it and have a nice project structure, with the original files I want to edit, not the unified sources.

Dean




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