[Scons-users] SCons very slow on GitHub actions

[Joseph C. Brill]

I'll take a look at the log posted shortly.

 

Are you running vcvars64.bat directly in the same environment that SCons is
being run at roughly the same time?

 

See my earlier post for the skeleton processing of the vcvars64.bat.

 

Vcvars64.bat directly calls about 16 child batch files which are
interrogating the windows registry, checking for directory and file
existence, calling vswhere, possibly calling powershell, using the "where"
command to search the system path for programs and libraries.  It is "read"
intensive of the OS drive (assuming MSVC installed on the OS drive).  SCons
itself also verifies that some of the files exist which is again
interrogating the OS drive file system for existence and execution.
Non-trivial file system latency is going to be problematic.

 

I will run a couple of experiments here with two physical boxes (amd64 and
an old arm64) and a couple of VMWare virtual machines.  I expect the
physical amd64 to be the fastest, the VMWare vms to be the next fastest, and
the physical arm64 box to be significantly slower due to the limited
hardware and disk.  At present, I' m not sure of the magnitude of the
differences.

 

Regards,

Joe

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