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Do not add duplicate json files to compilation db

Open AlexK-BD opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

The list of temporary compile command json files generated on build events can have many duplicates. This PR deduplicates that list before building up the compilation db.

This can lead to massive reductions in size (100x in my case). The raw list was something like 500k files, with only 3600 of them being unique. The resulting compile_commands.json is substantially smaller -- with duplicates, I've seen it as large as 11GB for my configuration; with this change, it is 166MB

clangd doesn't cope well with a large and heavily duplicated json file, and tends to run out of memory.

AlexK-BD avatar Dec 29 '22 14:12 AlexK-BD