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authorJade Lovelace <lix@jade.fyi>2024-06-06 02:08:20 -0700
committerJade Lovelace <lix@jade.fyi>2024-06-06 15:08:12 -0700
commit24057dcb6a5d33806de66de1e42137eca398350e (patch)
treeba3e55e014683f884058565c7ca4f08b0075a655 /doc
parent1659404626b80509db162fddcc1f5294fe590afa (diff)
Remove rl-next-dev
We realized that there's really no good place to put these dev facing bulletins, and the user-facing release notes aren't really the worst place to put them, I guess, and we do kind of hope that it converts users to devs. Change-Id: Id9387b2964fe291cb5a3f74ad6344157f19b540c
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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/rl-next/build-timing-analysis.md (renamed from doc/manual/rl-next-dev/build-timing-analysis.md)9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next-dev/build-timing-analysis.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/build-timing-analysis.md
index e59f3ca02..1bf803dab 100644
--- a/doc/manual/rl-next-dev/build-timing-analysis.md
+++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/build-timing-analysis.md
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
---
synopsis: Clang build timing analysis
cls: 587
+category: Development
---
We now have Clang build profiling available, which generates Chrome
tracing files for each compilation unit. To enable it, run `meson configure
-build -Dprofile-build=enabled` then rerun the compilation.
+build -Dprofile-build=enabled` in a Clang stdenv (`nix develop
+.#native-clangStdenvPackages`) then rerun the compilation.
If you want to make the build go faster, do a clang build with meson, then run
`maintainers/buildtime_report.sh build`, then contemplate how to improve the
@@ -13,3 +15,8 @@ build time.
You can also look at individual object files' traces in
<https://ui.perfetto.dev>.
+
+See [the wiki page][improving-build-times-wiki] for more details on how to do
+this.
+
+[improving-build-times-wiki]: https://wiki.lix.systems/link/8#bkmrk-page-title