update some windows references in the docs

Drop the timing info, it's too variable to commit to a manual.

diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc
index 15359ec..0c0d761 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/manual.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc
@@ -136,19 +136,15 @@ but they are not part of make itself.)
 Using Ninja for your project
 ----------------------------
 
-Ninja currently works on Unix-like systems. It's seen the most testing
-on Linux (and has the best performance there) but it runs fine on Mac
-OS X and FreeBSD.  Ninja has some preliminary Windows support but the
-full details of the implementation -- like how to get C header
-interdependencies correct and fast when using MSVC's compiler -- is
-not yet complete.
+Ninja currently works on Unix-like systems and Windows. It's seen the
+most testing on Linux (and has the best performance there) but it runs
+fine on Mac OS X and FreeBSD.
 
 If your project is small, Ninja's speed impact is likely unnoticeable.
-Some build timing numbers are included below.  (However, even for
-small projects it sometimes turns out that Ninja's limited syntax
-forces simpler build rules that result in faster builds.)  Another way
-to say this is that if you're happy with the edit-compile cycle time
-of your project already then Ninja won't help.
+(However, even for small projects it sometimes turns out that Ninja's
+limited syntax forces simpler build rules that result in faster
+builds.)  Another way to say this is that if you're happy with the
+edit-compile cycle time of your project already then Ninja won't help.
 
 There are many other build systems that are more user-friendly or
 featureful than Ninja itself.  For some recommendations: the Ninja
@@ -160,21 +156,11 @@ Ninja's benefit comes from using it in conjunction with a smarter
 meta-build system.
 
 http://code.google.com/p/gyp/[gyp]:: The meta-build system used to
-generate build files for Google Chrome.  gyp can generate Ninja files
-for Linux and Mac and is used by many Chrome developers; support for
-Windows is in progress.  See the
+generate build files for Google Chrome and related projects (v8,
+node.js).  gyp can generate Ninja files for all platforms supported by
+Chrome. See the
 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/NinjaBuild[Chromium Ninja
-documentation for more details].  gyp is relatively unpopular outside
-of the Chrome and v8 world.
-
-* For Chrome (~30k source files), Ninja reduced no-op builds from
-  around 15 seconds to under one second.
-* https://plus.google.com/108996039294665965197/posts/SfhrFAhRyyd[A
-  Mozilla developer compares build systems]: "While chromium's full
-  build is 2.15x slower than firefox's, a nop build is 78.2x faster!
-  That is really noticeable during development. No incremental build
-  of firefox can be faster than 57.9s, which means that in practice
-  almost all of them will be over a minute."
+documentation for more details].
 
 http://www.cmake.org/[CMake]:: A widely used meta-build system that
 can generate Ninja files on Linux as of CMake version 2.8.8.  (There
@@ -183,11 +169,6 @@ uses Ninja on Windows for their buildbots, but those platforms are not
 yet officially supported by CMake as the full test suite doesn't
 pass.)
 
-* For building Blender, one user reported "Single file rebuild is 0.97
-  sec, same on makefiles was 3.7sec."
-* For building LLVM on Windows, one user reported no-op build times:
-  "ninja: 0.4s / MSBuild: 11s / jom: 53s".
-
 others:: Ninja ought to fit perfectly into other meta-build software
 like http://industriousone.com/premake[premake].  If you do this work,
 please let us know!