FASTBuild
FASTBuild is a high performance, open-source build system for Windows, Linux and OS X. It supports highly scalable compilation, caching and network distribution.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Features
Tags
- development
- build-tool
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FASTBuild information
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Franta FulinLicensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
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What is FASTBuild?
FASTBuild was designed from the ground up to support parallel compilation. The highly optimized main build pipeline is designed to be as thin as possible, dispatching build tasks to worker threads to maximize parallelism.
FASTBuild has no artificial dependency bottlenecks like those present when compiling with Visual Studio/MSBuild. Unlike Visual Studio, FASTBuild is able to precisely manage the number of CPU cores used during a build avoiding excessive idle spots or excessive context switching due to spawning too many threads.
FASTBuild is a native Windows/OS X/Linux application, with all functionality built-in, avoiding the process-invocation overhead present in systems like make.
Processing and management of the build graph occurs in highly optimized C++ code, avoiding performance issues present in systems like Scons.