Faster Than Ninja

Faster Than Ninja Posted on 5 Aug 2026 by Boris Kolpackov Some months ago I read an article about a tool for snooping on slow build systems that can be used to find build bottlenecks. While the whole article is quite illuminating, this quote stood out to me: Ninja is not a 100% fair comparison to other tools, because it benefits from some "baked in" build logic by the tool that created the ninja file, but I think it's a reasonable "speed of light" performance benchmark for build systems. To clar