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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2020-12-15 09:25:19 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2020-12-15 09:31:59 +0200
commitf7a245b2b6091ef3a5e1193423c7fbbd6fe6a538 (patch)
tree28b3006840b718084f229820e0408b0712674232 /libbuild2/file.cxx
parent8c9b0fb944a60d8193d8ac3dbac4e8e15f81bf57 (diff)
Cache more results of executing programs (compilers, etc)
Diffstat (limited to 'libbuild2/file.cxx')
-rw-r--r--libbuild2/file.cxx31
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/libbuild2/file.cxx b/libbuild2/file.cxx
index 219a5f1..396b0fe 100644
--- a/libbuild2/file.cxx
+++ b/libbuild2/file.cxx
@@ -1698,20 +1698,35 @@ namespace build2
// Note that loading of the metadata is split into two steps, extraction and
// parsing, because extraction also serves as validation that the executable
// is runnable, what we expected, etc. In other words, we sometimes do the
- // extraction without parsing. In this light it would have been more
- // efficient for extract to return the running process with a pipe rather
- // than the extracted data. But this would complicate the code quite a bit
- // plus we don't expect the data to be large, typically.
+ // extraction without parsing. Actually, this seems to be no longer true but
+ // we do separate the two acts with some interleaving code (e.g., inserting
+ // the target).
//
// Also note that we do not check the export.metadata here leaving it to
// the caller to do for both this case and export stub.
//
+ // Finally, at first it may seem that caching the metadata is unnecessary
+ // since the target state itself serves as a cache (i.e., we try hard to
+ // avoid re-extracting the metadata). However, if there is no metadata, then
+ // we will re-run the extraction for every optional import. So we cache that
+ // case only. Note also that while this is only done during serial load, we
+ // still have to use MT-safe cache since it could be shared by multiple
+ // build contexts.
+ //
+ static global_cache<bool> metadata_cache;
+
static optional<string>
extract_metadata (const process_path& pp,
const string& key,
bool opt,
const location& loc)
{
+ if (opt)
+ {
+ if (metadata_cache.find (pp.effect_string ()))
+ return nullopt;
+ }
+
// Note: to ease handling (think patching third-party code) we will always
// specify the --build2-metadata option in this single-argument form.
//
@@ -1754,7 +1769,7 @@ namespace build2
ifdstream is (move (pr.in_ofd), ifdstream::badbit); // Note: no skip!
// What are the odds that we will run some unrelated program which
- // will keep writing to stdout until we run out of memory reading?
+ // will keep writing to stdout until we run out of memory reading it?
// Apparently non-negligible (see GitHub issue #102).
//
string r;
@@ -1839,7 +1854,10 @@ namespace build2
fail:
if (opt)
+ {
+ metadata_cache.insert (pp.effect_string (), true);
return nullopt;
+ }
else
throw failed ();
}
@@ -2683,10 +2701,7 @@ namespace build2
// the first import will determine the path).
//
if (r.second)
- {
r.first.as<exe> ().process_path (move (pp));
- r.second.unlock ();
- }
}
// Save the metadata. Note that this happens during the load phase and