ci: Add build profiling job #13510
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This adds a GHA jobs to help analyze build times and its regressions. It is based on `clangStdenv` with `-ftime-trace` together with `ClangBuildAnalyzer` to prepare markdown summary for individual components. This also has the minor benefit of dogfooding CA and impure derivations.
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Example of the summary: https://github.com/xokdvium/nix/actions/runs/16401423399 |
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We should come up with something a bit nicer than hardcoding lists like this over and over, but that'd be a separate task.
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| pkgs.runCommand "build-time-report" | ||
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| __impure = true; |
| mesonComponentOverrides = finalAttrs: prevAttrs: { | ||
| outputs = (prevAttrs.outputs or [ "out" ]) ++ [ "buildprofile" ]; | ||
| nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.clangbuildanalyzer ] ++ prevAttrs.nativeBuildInputs or [ ]; | ||
| __impure = true; |
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@edolstra in the magic action, it'd be good to avoid saving impure paths, because they can't be reused anyway.
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Motivation
This adds a GHA jobs to help analyze build times
and its regressions. It is based on
clangStdenvwith-ftime-tracetogether withClangBuildAnalyzerto prepare markdown summary for individual components.The job is only run on the master branch on pushes. Not sure that running this job for all PRs is worthwhile.
This also has the minor benefit of dogfooding CA and impure derivations.
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