Re: [PATCH 00/23] kbuild: significantly speed up kernel builds

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 7:17 AM Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 02:06:18PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > It would be cool if your LLM could generate any visualizations of
> > what's going on during a build? Seeing what's serial vs parallelized
> > in perhaps useful. Particularly when you can compare the before vs
> > after.
>
> Great idea!
>
> I asked it to do exactly that, attached. Came out quite nice and sums it up
> nicely :)
>
> It also provided an ASCII version:

unreadable, but the pictures you attached are worth a thousand words.
Particularly exciting are the speed ups to the usual edit+compile+run
loop.

For the blue graph (the top one, first), any idea what that dip in the
middle is? That's always what annoyed me.
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers