[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/29] qapi: Touch generated files only when they change

[Markus Armbruster]

A massive number of objects depends on QAPI-generated headers.  In my
"build everything" tree, it's roughly 4800 out of 5100.  This is
particularly annoying when only some of the generated files change,
say for a doc fix.

Improve qapi-gen.py to touch its output files only if they actually
change.  Rebuild time for a QAPI doc fix drops from many minutes to a
few seconds.  Rebuilds get faster for certain code changes, too.  For
instance, adding a simple QMP event now recompiles less than 200
instead of 4800 objects.  But adding a QAPI type is as bad as ever;
we've clearly got more work to do.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
---
 scripts/qapi/common.py | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/qapi/common.py b/scripts/qapi/common.py
index 8290795dc1..2e58573a39 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/common.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/common.py
@@ -1951,9 +1951,16 @@ class QAPIGen(object):
             except os.error as e:
                 if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
                     raise
-        f = open(os.path.join(output_dir, fname), 'w')
-        f.write(self._top(fname) + self._preamble + self._body
+        fd = os.open(os.path.join(output_dir, fname),
+                     os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT, 0666)
+        f = os.fdopen(fd, 'r+')
+        text = (self._top(fname) + self._preamble + self._body
                 + self._bottom(fname))
+        oldtext = f.read(len(text) + 1)
+        if text != oldtext:
+            f.seek(0)
+            f.truncate(0)
+            f.write(text)
         f.close()
 
 
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2.13.6