Infra: Reduce build time to perform CLR up-to-date check

[agocke]

The time being measured is the time needed to build the clr subset, after the subset has been completely built already.

If this time were low enough, under 5 seconds or so, it would be feasible to add it as a dependency to other subsets. As it is, it takes roughly 51s on my machine.

Ongoing list of work items, to be updated until we're at 5 secons or less:

• Incrementally crossgen System.Private.CoreLib
• clretwrc appears to always be rebuilt
• Switch to Ninja in Windows by default
  • This will require a workflow for building and preserving VS project files
• Consider changing the default meaning of clr partition
  • Linux DAC is built by default on Windows (this is expensive. We could try to make it cheaper, or move it out of dev build)
  • CLR managed tools are built as part of CLR

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[hoyosjs]

After building with #48044, a release build up-to-date-check using build-runtime.cmd writes no files other than the CMake cache.

Some rough numbers with the MSBuild/VS generator on my 8 core machine for an up-to-date check on release x64 fornative builds:

• With ./build.cmd clr.runtime -rc release it takes somewhere between 40 and 50 seconds. There's a small overhead on restore of tools here.
• With direct call into build-runtime (src/coreclr/build-runtime.cmd -release -x64 -enforcepgo) Roughly 40 seconds.
• With direct call into build-runtime.cmd and skipping CMake setup (src/coreclr/build-runtime.cmd -release -x64 -enforcepgo -skipconfigure) 25-30 seconds. This option is not bubbled up to the root build script.
• MSBuild takes 20s-25s of this.

With ninja:

• root script and build-runtime (src/coreclr/build-runtime.cmd -release -x64 -enforcepgo) take roughly 18-20 seconds.
• build-runtime.cmd and skipping CMake setup gives 10-12 seconds.

[hoyosjs]

Largely 10 seconds are used in invoking MSBuild in 3 invocations:

• Generate a version header.
• Restore the pgo package
• Generate a PGO path file.

These could arguably be munged into 1 (max two) calls.

[ViktorHofer]

Largely 10 seconds are used in invoking MSBuild in 3 invocations:

Are those steps running in incremental builds as well? The version header could presumably have inputs and outputs applied. Restoring via nuget is already incremental so nothing to do there.

[agocke]

@hoyosjs Looking at the log, when I run build clr -ninja I still see

Read file version from native version header at 'C:/Users/andy/Code/runtime/src/coreclr/../../artifacts/obj/coreclr/_version.h'.
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: C:/Users/andy/Code/runtime/artifacts/nmakeobj/windows.x64.Debug
[1/7] Linking RC shared library dlls\clretwrc\clretwrc.dll
[2/7] Linking RC shared library dlls\mscorrc\mscorrc.dll

I wasn't expecting us to have to re-link clretwrc. Any ideas?

[hoyosjs]

Tracked it down I think. Let me test if it's that.

[hoyosjs]

Hmm. Looks like what I was seeing will only affect non-Windows system. Will try to see where this is coming from.