I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
A developer created an open-source tool called buildprof to visualize and profile software build times on Linux. The tool was inspired by a debate regarding the performance differences between Zig and Rust compilers.
Why it matters
It provides developers with a practical way to identify bottlenecks in complex build processes, potentially improving software development efficiency.
I built buildprof ( Github ), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here's a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep:
Sometimes, builds are slow because there is simply a lot of code to compile. But more often than not, there are fixable problems: poor parallelism, repeated work, dependency downloads or a huge compiler/linker invocation. buildprof makes all of this clearly visible, so you can see what’s worth investigating and optimizing.
You run it by putting buildprof -- in front of any build command you already use:
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