Don't touch output file if content did not change. (#2738)

Co-authored-by: Yong He <yhe@nvidia.com>

3 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/core/slang-io.cpp b/source/core/slang-io.cpp
index 12cbb9ba8..6f97ef45d 100644
--- a/source/core/slang-io.cpp
+++ b/source/core/slang-io.cpp
@@ -993,6 +993,17 @@ namespace Slang
         return SLANG_OK;
     }
 
+    SlangResult File::writeAllTextIfChanged(const String& fileName, UnownedStringSlice text)
+    {
+        String existingContent;
+        auto result = File::readAllText(fileName, existingContent);
+        if (SLANG_FAILED(result) || existingContent != text)
+        {
+            return File::writeNativeText(fileName, text.begin(), text.getLength());
+        }
+        return SLANG_OK;
+    }
+
     /* static */SlangResult File::writeNativeText(const String& path, const void* data, size_t size)
     {
         FILE* file = fopen(path.getBuffer(), "w");
diff --git a/source/core/slang-io.h b/source/core/slang-io.h
index 60487e6af..30c477730 100644
--- a/source/core/slang-io.h
+++ b/source/core/slang-io.h
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ namespace Slang
 
         static SlangResult writeAllText(const String& fileName, const String& text);
 
+        static SlangResult writeAllTextIfChanged(const String& fileName, UnownedStringSlice text);
+
             /// Write as text in native form for the target (so typically may change line endings )
         static SlangResult writeNativeText(const String& filename, const void* data, size_t size);
 
diff --git a/source/slang/slang-artifact-output-util.cpp b/source/slang/slang-artifact-output-util.cpp
index e9cfe6615..bcf145420 100644
--- a/source/slang/slang-artifact-output-util.cpp
+++ b/source/slang/slang-artifact-output-util.cpp
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static SlangResult _requireBlob(IArtifact* artifact, DiagnosticSink* sink, ComPt
 {
     if (ArtifactDescUtil::isText(desc))
     {
-        return File::writeNativeText(path, data, size);
+        return File::writeAllTextIfChanged(path, UnownedStringSlice((const char*)data, size));
     }
     else
     {