# Fastbuild vs Ninja?

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/fastbuild-vs-ninja/4031
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [September 3, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/fastbuild-vs-ninja/4031 "2021-09-03T14:49:11Z")
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### Author: ![buildSystemPerson](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/buildsystemperson/32/2851_2.png) [@buildSystemPerson](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/buildSystemPerson)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/fastbuild-vs-ninja/4031/1 "2021-09-03T14:49:11Z")

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I was looking at this PR:  
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/merge\_requests/6483](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/merge_requests/6483)

Never heard of fastbuild before. I started looking into and it looks interesting.  
[https://fastbuild.org/docs/features.html](https://fastbuild.org/docs/features.html)

Does anyone know how it compares to Ninja?