After the allmodconfig build, this script takes about 5 sec on my machine. Most of the run-time is consumed for needless regex matching. We know the format of .*.cmd file; the first line is the build command. There is no need to parse the rest. With this optimization, now it runs 4 times faster. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> --- (no changes since v2) Changes in v2: - Remove the unneeded variable 'line' scripts/gen_compile_commands.py | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/gen_compile_commands.py b/scripts/gen_compile_commands.py index c458696ef3a7..1bcf33a93cb9 100755 --- a/scripts/gen_compile_commands.py +++ b/scripts/gen_compile_commands.py @@ -125,11 +125,8 @@ def main(): filepath = os.path.join(dirpath, filename) with open(filepath, 'rt') as f: - for line in f: - result = line_matcher.match(line) - if not result: - continue - + result = line_matcher.match(f.readline()) + if result: try: entry = process_line(directory, dirpath, result.group(1), result.group(2)) -- 2.25.1