[Scons-users] build time

William Deegan bill at baddogconsulting.com
Tue Jul 3 12:54:13 EDT 2012


Tom,


On Jul 3, 2012, at 2:44 AM, TOM TANNER (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) wrote:


> 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?


Yes, patches welcome.
-Bill


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