Strategy for choosing a build system

Scott Newton scottn at ihug.co.nz
Sat Feb 4 00:51:52 CET 2006


On Saturday, 04 February 2006 12:41, Holger Schröder wrote:
> the biggest issue with scons as it is now is performance. it is
> unacceptable to wait for 90 seconds on a decent computer for scons to build
> up its dependency tree, when you are only working on a special file in a
> special subdir and want to compile it. as soon as this performance problem
> is fixed, all the rest is doable. but speeding up scons by a factor of 10
> or better 100 is really a heavy task.

The work that Thomas Nagy is doing speeds it up significantly - probably close 
to the factor of a 100 but definitely way beyond the 10.
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Regards
Scott Newton


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