[Build] - Reduce libsairedis build time by 16m #1413
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Add -fno-var-tracking-assignments to pysairedis_wrap.cpp when built with GCC
This improves compilation time by a total of 16m by disabling the GCC feature "Variable Tracking Assingments."
The trade-off for disabling this feature is reduced debuggability if anyone needs to go through the object file pysairedis_wrap.o with a debugger. Please see the background below for details.
This was identified via the following issue in the SWIG project:
This is a performance issue in GCC specifically, not CLANG.
Results:
On a server with the following specifications, the build time for libsairedis went from 20m23s down to 3m50s.
On an Apple MacBook Pro (with a Debian build VM), the build time for libsairedis also dropped significantly from 17m43s down to 3m46s
Background: