Are you sure Ninja is the cause of the problems there? I agree that it’s repetitive, but you can at least put common expressions into build variables, so the overall build script size should scale about linearly with the number of files.
142MB is massive! How many files are being built and how much work is being done per file? 142,000 files with 1KB of unique command-line flags each?
Also, even though that’s a very large build script, I would have thought generating it should only take seconds, not minutes. How is the script being generated, and how long is spent generating it versus executing it?
142MB is massive! How many files are being built and how much work is being done per file? 142,000 files with 1KB of unique command-line flags each?
Also, even though that’s a very large build script, I would have thought generating it should only take seconds, not minutes. How is the script being generated, and how long is spent generating it versus executing it?