[Scons-users] build time

[TOM TANNER (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON)]

I'm converting our build from a.n. other system, and one issue we have is that a 'do nothing' build takes 20 minutes to work out it has to do nothing.

This is a *little* better on scons, but I notice that even if I give it a lot of threads, it spends all its time hanging around for the infamous global interpreter lock, even though we have a few spare CPUs.

So the question is really - is there any consideration being given to using the multiprocessing module instead of threading?