[Scons-users] Clone effectiveness

[Damien Hocking]

We do this too.  Most dlls and sos have a cloned environment.

> On Sep 13, 2018, at 12:27 PM, Pierre-Luc Boily <pierreluc.boily at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Just read on the forum :
> 
> /Here's the caveat.
> Don't make a gazillion Clone's they're not lightweight.
> If you make 100, it won't kill you, if you make 1000's you may start seeing
> memory and speed impacted./
> 
> Our project branch contains 800 sconscript files.  From those 800, 300 are
> for windows compilation, 500 are for unix compilation.
> 
> We systematically create a clone of the environment at the beginning of
> *each *sconscript.  So, if I understand well, it might not be the best
> approach.  It would be better to do a Clone only when it is needed? 
> Reducing the number of clone could potentially speed up the creating of the
> tree?
> 
> Thx
> 
> 
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