Re: SCons build tool speed

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Epler
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:39:10PM -0500, Peter Hansen wrote: > That answer, combined with Mike's response pointing out > that tools more sophisticated than basic "make" actually > can delve into the source and identify the dependencies, Argh argh argh. Of course you can write a makefile to "delv

Re: SCons build tool speed

2005-02-13 Thread Peter Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right that build times are dominated by the external commands when rebuilds occur. If nothing needs to be rebuilt, though, the wall-clock time is obviously dominated by how long it takes for the build tool to decide that. A build tool that doesn't decide whether or

Re: SCons build tool speed

2005-02-13 Thread knight
Hi Peter-- > > How does the speed of the Scons build tool compare with > > Ant? Right now with out Ant builds take around an hour. Hoping > > to speed that up. > > Don't tools like Scons, Ant, and for that matter "make" just > execute other programs? So that 99% of the time is consumed > external

Re: SCons build tool speed

2005-02-13 Thread knight
Hi Neil, ted, et al.-- > > How does the speed of the Scons build tool compare with Ant? > > Right now with out Ant builds take around an hour. Hoping to > > speed that up. > > Scons emphasises accuracy over speed and is normally a little > slower than other build tools although still fast enough f

Re: SCons build tool speed

2005-02-13 Thread PA
On Feb 13, 2005, at 12:20, Neil Hodgson wrote: http://www.scons.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GoFastButton Out of curiosity, why does scons uses MD5 by default? Is that not, er, somewhat heavy handed for most practical purpose? Would not some sort of lightweight CRC be "good enough" to start with? http://samb

Re: SCons build tool speed

2005-02-13 Thread Neil Hodgson
ted: > How does the speed of the Scons build tool compare with Ant? > Right now with out Ant builds take around an hour. Hoping to > speed that up. Scons emphasises accuracy over speed and is normally a little slower than other build tools although still fast enough for most purposes. One c

Re: SCons build tool speed

2005-02-12 Thread Mike Meyer
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ted wrote: >> How does the speed of the Scons build tool compare with Ant? Right >> now with out Ant builds take around an hour. Hoping to speed that up. > > Don't tools like Scons, Ant, and for that matter "make" just > execute other programs? So that 9

Re: SCons build tool speed

2005-02-12 Thread Peter Hansen
ted wrote: How does the speed of the Scons build tool compare with Ant? Right now with out Ant builds take around an hour. Hoping to speed that up. Don't tools like Scons, Ant, and for that matter "make" just execute other programs? So that 99% of the time is consumed external to the Scons, Ant,

Re: SCons build tool speed

2005-02-12 Thread Christopher De Vries
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:16:02PM +, ted wrote: > How does the speed of the Scons build tool compare with Ant? I would recommend asking this question on [EMAIL PROTECTED] , but my impressions is that most of the time is probably spent in the compiler. If you are working on a java project you

SCons build tool speed

2005-02-12 Thread ted
How does the speed of the Scons build tool compare with Ant? Right now with out Ant builds take around an hour. Hoping to speed that up. TIA, Ted -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list