The Ninja [1] build system has also been a godsend for my recent projects. I measure significant speedups with Ninja vs. make -j# on my multicore machines. CMak

The Ninja [1] build system has also been a godsend for my recent projects. I measure significant speedups with Ninja vs. make -j# on my multicore machines. CMake is also able to spit out Ninja build systems, so transitioning to Ninja is essentially free if you are already using CMake, which is quite common for scientific and numerical codebases. [1] http://martine.github.io/ninja/ http://martine.github.io/ninja/