meson: Add support for building with precompiled headers
authorAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Fri, 7 Oct 2022 00:19:30 +0000 (17:19 -0700)
committerAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Fri, 7 Oct 2022 00:19:30 +0000 (17:19 -0700)
commite5555657ba860f2ac25fb7ef9c921a32c6e70c75
tree987cfa6b57bb0f47b58f52bd46193ab266b85cf3
parente0b0142959066f3a9de1c6867f4ec8d41d104f33
meson: Add support for building with precompiled headers

This substantially speeds up building for windows, due to the vast amount of
headers included via windows.h. A cross build from linux targetting mingw goes
from

994.11user 136.43system 0:31.58elapsed 3579%CPU
to
422.41user 89.05system 0:14.35elapsed 3562%CPU

The wins on windows are similar-ish (but I don't have a system at hand just
now for actual numbers). Targetting other operating systems the wins are far
smaller (tested linux, macOS, FreeBSD).

For now precompiled headers are disabled by default, it's not clear how well
they work on all platforms. E.g. on FreeBSD gcc doesn't seem to have working
support, but clang does.

When doing a full build precompiled headers are only beneficial for targets
with multiple .c files, as meson builds a separate precompiled header for each
target (so that different compilation options take effect). This commit
therefore only changes target with at least two .c files to use precompiled
headers.

Because this commit adds b_pch=false to the default_options new build
directories will have precompiled headers disabled by default, however
existing build directories will continue use the default value of b_pch, which
is true.

Note that using precompiled headers with ccache requires setting
CCACHE_SLOPPINESS=pch_defines,time_macros to get hits.

Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKG+50eOUbN++ocDc0Qnp9Pvmou23DSXu=ZA6fepOcftKqA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c5736f70-bb6d-8d25-e35c-e3d886e4e905@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190826054000.GE7005%40paquier.xyz
32 files changed:
.cirrus.yml
contrib/bloom/meson.build
contrib/btree_gist/meson.build
contrib/hstore/meson.build
contrib/pg_trgm/meson.build
contrib/pgcrypto/meson.build
contrib/pgstattuple/meson.build
contrib/sepgsql/meson.build
contrib/xml2/meson.build
meson.build
src/backend/meson.build
src/backend/snowball/meson.build
src/bin/pg_dump/meson.build
src/bin/pg_upgrade/meson.build
src/bin/pgbench/meson.build
src/bin/psql/meson.build
src/common/meson.build
src/fe_utils/meson.build
src/include/meson.build
src/include/pch/c_pch.h [new file with mode: 0644]
src/include/pch/meson.build [new file with mode: 0644]
src/include/pch/postgres_fe_pch.h [new file with mode: 0644]
src/include/pch/postgres_pch.h [new file with mode: 0644]
src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/meson.build
src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/meson.build
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/meson.build
src/interfaces/libpq/meson.build
src/pl/plperl/meson.build
src/pl/plpgsql/src/meson.build
src/pl/plpython/meson.build
src/pl/tcl/meson.build
src/port/meson.build