[swift-dev] ccache and/or distcc for swift

[Oscar Bonilla]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the reply. It seems that maybe this should be a collaboration
between the swift compiler and the build system. I'm thinking something
along the lines of the swift compiler being able to print out a list of
file-level dependencies that the build system can use to decide whether to
compile files or reuse compiled objects?

If the swift compiler could produce as a side effect of the compilation a
list of files (with checksums) that it used, in theory it would be possible
to checksum those files on another compilation (in a different machine) and
reuse the object files right?

Does that seem reasonable/doable?

Thanks!

-Oscar


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*Oscar Bonilla*
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dunbar at apple.com>
wrote:

> Hi Oscar,
>
> Nothing exists like that for Swift yet -- it is non-trivial for several
> reasons, the big two are:
> 1. The Swift compilation model relies on global information for a module,
> and needs to see all the sources. This process is currently embedded in the
> `swiftc` driver which would need to be aware of how to manage this process
> (or factored into a library API that a client able to manage the
> distribution could interact with).
> 2. The Swift compilation model also heavily leverages the ability to
> import Clang modules, which means that it *also* needs to be able to see
> large amounts of C headers, in modular model not a header preprocessing
> model. The distribution mechanism would also need to be aware of this.
>
>  - Daniel
>
> On Sep 27, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Oscar Bonilla via swift-dev <
> swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
>
> Hello swift developers,
>
> I was wondering if any of you knows anything about something
> like ccache and/or distcc for swift.
>
> Basically, what I want is to speed up compiles by caching the result
> (like ccache does) and then reusing the compilation results across
> multiple machines.
>
> Does anything like that exist for swift? I looked at ccache but they
> don't support swift and I couldn't find anything on distcc either.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Oscar
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