Sample project for build speed comparison

This project contains a simple Qt5 application meant for testing compile speed.

The code was originally developed by Canonical as a network debugging tool. However in this project we only care about build performance, not what the application itself is doing.

The original code can be found here:

https://code.launchpad.net/~jpakkane/+junk/netdumpper

How to compile

Meson

mkdir buildmeson
cd buildmeson
meson ..
time ninja

Meson unity build

mkdir buildmu
cd buildmu
meson --unity --disable-pch ..
time ninja

CMake

mkdir builcmake
cd buildcmake
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug -G Ninja ..
time ninja

Build times on Raspberry Pi 2

CMake               2m 20s
Meson               1m 36s
Meson unity build      39s