Theres a couple of things that this meson build system does differently
than autotools. It doesn't use a config.h file, it just puts #defines on
the command line with -D. It also does all of the code generation in the
generated folder, simply because it's simpler to do that.
On my 2 core / 4 thread KBL system:
autotools (no ccache):
sh -c "./autogen.sh&& ./configure && make -j6 check" 44.74s user 6.70s system 145% cpu 35.269 total
autotools (warm ccache):
sh -c "./autogen.sh&& ./configure && make -j6 check" 32.86s user 4.22s system 129% cpu 28.580 total
meson (no ccache):
sh -c "meson build; ninja -C build test" 23.48s user 3.71s system 236% cpu 11.487 total
meson (warm ccache)
sh -c "meson build; ninja -C build test" 16.06s user 2.31s system 210% cpu 8.727 total
Many project in the freedesktop graphics space use editorconfig files as
a way to standardize style in an editor agnostic way. This one
configures all of the files current in libglvnd (I looked at the .c and
.h files and they seem to all use 4 spaces for indent). Because it
seemed everything used 4 spaces I just set that to the default and
overrode as necessary.
Dylan Baker