[HN Gopher] ninjavis - generate visualization from ninja build logs
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       ninjavis - generate visualization from ninja build logs
        
       Author : gjvc
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2025-02-28 18:00 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | ramon156 wrote:
       | I love when projects use vis as a shorthand, which is fish in
       | dutch.
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       | Ninja fish!
        
       | Galanwe wrote:
       | That is very cool! Now I could use this to spot long dependency
       | chains and investigate if each is necessary or if forward
       | declarations would be enough.
       | 
       | Thanks a lot
        
         | philsnow wrote:
         | The charts produced look a bit like Gantt charts but this vis
         | doesn't seem to track dependencies; you would only see
         | dependencies spread out on the x axis if you let it start
         | unlimited concurrent jobs, i think.
        
       | gmargari wrote:
       | Does this provide any advantage to ninjatracing?
       | https://github.com/nico/ninjatracing
        
         | gjvc wrote:
         | doesn't require about:tracing in chrome,
         | https://www.speedscope.app/, or https://ui.perfetto.dev/
        
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