I don't know anything about scons internals, but how hard would it be to fix that? Have a "scons server" that sat around waiting for commands to build (or event watched a set of directories for changes and updated its dependency graph on the fly)?
--Amanda On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Darin Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The scons build definitely lets you build only a single target (program or > library) at a time. What is missing is the ability to compile a single > source file. > The nice thing about the scons build is that it will compile source files in > parallel and not just projects in parallel. I think this helps things go > faster (for non-IB builds), especially if you have a 4 core system ;-) > That said, the scons build has a much higher startup cost than VS because > unlike VS, the scons build system is not kept resident between builds. > > -Darin > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> I agree. I'm afraid that if building takes xx% more time, engs will >> complain (heck they already complain, I do too). >> >> I don't want to loose the choice to build a single project and its >> dependencies, like just build unit_tests.exe or chrome.exe. I very >> infrequently build the whole solution. I let that to the try server. >> Can we still do that? >> >> If it's multicore friendly, that will definitely help. (I haven't tried >> yet) >> >> M-A >> >> 2008/11/14 Glen Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> >> Let me know if you have specific issues or concerns to address, or >> >> (especially) if you know of any reason next week would be a bad time to >> >> do >> >> this. >> > >> > I understand it might not be on-par just yet, but so we know what to >> > expect, are there comparison numbers for total post-checkout >> > non-Incredibuild build time? >> > >> > > >> > >> >> > > > > > -- --Amanda "Big Brother is hallucinating." --Elizabeth D. Zwicky --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
