Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

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There's incredibuild, stashed.io, ccache, dcache , scache, FastBuild, BuildCache.There's one more that was highlighted by HN. Its used by game companies. I can't seem to find the link. It was mentioned here on HN. Anyone have any ideas?

dieortin · Accepted Answer

Probably not what you&rsquo;re thinking of, but Bazel? https://bazel.build

ComputerGuru · Answer

distcc is probably the one game companies are biased towards.

bastijn · Answer

For others searching (alternative) generic build caching tool supporting mono-repos:Nx - https://nx.dev/.

SushiHippie · Answer

If you've upvoted that HN story/comment that mentioned that tool, you may be able to find it via:
https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndog
https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndog&comments...
Both links are only visible to you

opless · Answer

Incredibuild is a pretty good product. Though there's nothing else out there that I know of that's similar.
Does anyone know?
> Incredibuild (at the very least) redirects file io back to the original machine and so the executable running doesn't really know what machine it's on.
I know MPI runs nicer on a networked drive but isn't necessarily transparent
Plan 9 can do most of this with some scripting...

tacostakohashi · Answer

Probably not the one you are thinking of, but will mention for amusement...How about ClearCase / clearmake "winkins":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DevOps_Code_ClearCase

amelius · Answer

I'm using ccache, but apparently it does not work for linking. Any drop-in replacement I could use instead?

heluser · Answer

Look at https://earthly.dev/ But ideally we need more info - language, env and etc. for example both CircleCI and Gradle match your current ask but something tells me you need something else

Davidbrcz · Answer

Unity builds ?They are not a tool per se, but just a way to compile your project.

samatman · Answer

Zig as a build system deserves a shout-out here. It can compile C and C++ projects, good cross-compiler story, and it caches.

arjvik · Answer

distcc?

Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

There's incredibuild, stashed.io, ccache, dcache , scache, FastBuild, BuildCache.
There's one more that was highlighted by HN. Its used by game companies. I can't seem to find the link. It was mentioned here on HN. Anyone have any ideas?

Probably not what you’re thinking of, but Bazel? https://bazel.build

distcc is probably the one game companies are biased towards.

For others searching (alternative) generic build caching tool supporting mono-repos:
Nx - https://nx.dev/.

If you've upvoted that HN story/comment that mentioned that tool, you may be able to find it via:
https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndog
https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndog&comments...
Both links are only visible to you

Probably not the one you are thinking of, but will mention for amusement...
How about ClearCase / clearmake "winkins":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DevOps_Code_ClearCase

I'm using ccache, but apparently it does not work for linking. Any drop-in replacement I could use instead?

Look at https://earthly.dev/ But ideally we need more info - language, env and etc. for example both CircleCI and Gradle match your current ask but something tells me you need something else

Unity builds ?
They are not a tool per se, but just a way to compile your project.

Zig as a build system deserves a shout-out here. It can compile C and C++ projects, good cross-compiler story, and it caches.

distcc?

Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?

There's incredibuild, stashed.io, ccache, dcache , scache, FastBuild, BuildCache.There's one more that was highlighted by HN. Its used by game companies. I can't seem to find the link. It was mentioned here on HN. Anyone have any ideas?

Probably not what you’re thinking of, but Bazel? https://bazel.build

distcc is probably the one game companies are biased towards.

For others searching (alternative) generic build caching tool supporting mono-repos:Nx - https://nx.dev/.

If you've upvoted that HN story/comment that mentioned that tool, you may be able to find it via:https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndoghttps://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndog&comments...Both links are only visible to you

Probably not the one you are thinking of, but will mention for amusement...How about ClearCase / clearmake "winkins":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DevOps_Code_ClearCase

I'm using ccache, but apparently it does not work for linking. Any drop-in replacement I could use instead?

Look at https://earthly.dev/ But ideally we need more info - language, env and etc. for example both CircleCI and Gradle match your current ask but something tells me you need something else

Unity builds ?They are not a tool per se, but just a way to compile your project.

Zig as a build system deserves a shout-out here. It can compile C and C++ projects, good cross-compiler story, and it caches.

distcc?

There's incredibuild, stashed.io, ccache, dcache , scache, FastBuild, BuildCache.
There's one more that was highlighted by HN. Its used by game companies. I can't seem to find the link. It was mentioned here on HN. Anyone have any ideas?

For others searching (alternative) generic build caching tool supporting mono-repos:
Nx - https://nx.dev/.

If you've upvoted that HN story/comment that mentioned that tool, you may be able to find it via:
https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndog
https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndog&comments...
Both links are only visible to you

Probably not the one you are thinking of, but will mention for amusement...
How about ClearCase / clearmake "winkins":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DevOps_Code_ClearCase

Unity builds ?
They are not a tool per se, but just a way to compile your project.