Meson slow performance

[andrewchambers]

Hermes meson:

[ac@black:~/src/hpkgs/community]$ time ./result/bin/meson  --help
...
real    0m0.805s
user    0m0.759s
sys     0m0.045s

System meson:

[ac@black:~/src/hpkgs/community]$ time ./result/bin/meson  --help
...
real    0m0.140s
user    0m0.120s
sys     0m0.020s

[sogaiu]

Is "System" here a NixOS machine?

[andrewchambers]

Yes, though its not quite a fair comparison as musl libc may be doing different things. We also have a virtual env, so need to see if that slows things down.