[Scons-users] Need help to improve the incremental build time while using SCons

[Andrew C. Morrow]

FYI I've posted a note to the scons-dev mailing list outlining several
aspects of SCons performance that Bill Deegan and I have been investigating
over the past few months.

I encourage you to read the thread and follow up there with thoughts:
https://pairlist2.pair.net/pipermail/scons-dev/2017-July/004371.html

Thanks,
Andrew


On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Gary Granger <granger at ucar.edu> wrote:

> I realize this is an aging thread, but I thought I'd offer one more
> idea.  We have a tool to help speed up the edit-compile cycle where
> you're trying to get one source file to compile successfully.  When a
> compile command fails, the failed compile command is cached, so the next
> time scons is run, it short circuits the rest of the SCons setup and
> reruns the compile command directly.  If the command succeeds, then a
> normal scons build is restarted to continue to the next compile failure,
> and otherwise scons exits quickly so the developer can edit the file
> some more.  There is an assumption that the only thing the developer is
> changing is the source file being compiled, otherwise the full scons
> needs to run to check all the dependencies.
>
> Anyway, it seemed like an interesting idea, so we wrote a tool for it.
> You can find it here:
>
> https://github.com/ncareol/eol_scons/blob/master/eol_scons/tools/rerun.py
>
> It would need a little modification to divorce it from the eol_scons
> package: the GlobalVariables() method is our own extension but could be
> replaced or omitted.
>
> Gary
>
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