Has this gone through yet?  I am intrested in building this and as of
right now VS2008 isnt supported and its all I have.

On Nov 14, 5:26 pm, Steven Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I was an early adopter, and I am all for a scons based build.  That
> > said, the Linux team is already dieing with how slow it is.  We are
> > only building test shell, which is a fraction of the code of Chromium.
> >  Can we spend a few days of smart engineering and at least make some
> > progress in this direction?  It seems like performance hasn't really
> > been addressed yet, and it is really frustrating.
>
> Agreed.  One of the intents of foisting pain on the rest of the world now is
> to free up enough concentrated time for some smart engineering on these
> issues.
>
> I've been profiling the webkit build on Windows over the past several days,
> which has confirmed the long -I lists as the primary culprit.  I've appended
> some Python profile data below pointing to the large number of calls to
> get_found_includes(), which is the workhorse of the logic that finds a .h
> file in the -I directories.  (Tip o' the hat to our own Jim Roskind, who
> happens to be the person who wrote the Python profiler.)
>
> The low-hanging fruit here is that it's doing a linear search of the
> directories, for each .h file and object file.  There's some caching of
> intermediate results going on, which has made the performance of less
> extreme configurations than ours at least acceptable.  This points out,
> though, that this really needs a different algorithmic approach so that we
> can do the search in O(n), not O(n*m*j), which I think we can do with
> collapsing the entries of all the -I directories into a single lookup
> dictionary for each path.
>
> If anyone has an itch for a 20% project and would like to pitch in on
> looking at optimizations, please let me know.  The big drawback to my being
> initimately familiar with this code base is letting my historical knowledge
> blind me to other, better ways of doing things.  Fresh sets of eyes on any
> parts of this are very welcome.
>
>       --SK
>
>          39337904 function calls (36225727 primitive calls) in 155.015 CPU
> seconds
>
>    Ordered by: internal time
>    List reduced from 1654 to 10 due to restriction <10>
>
>        ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
>        153963   78.487    0.001   94.898    0.001
> /usr/local/google/home/sgk/src/chrome/trunk1/src/third_
> party/scons/scons-local/SCons/Node/FS.py:2454(get_found_includes)
>         12962    9.390    0.001   15.116    0.001
> /usr/local/google/home/sgk/src/chrome/trunk1/src/third_
> party/scons/scons-local/SCons/Node/FS.py:2941(find_file)
>        483243    5.000    0.000    7.130    0.000
> /usr/local/google/home/sgk/src/chrome/trunk1/src/third_
> party/scons/scons-local/SCons/Node/FS.py:480(__getattr__)
> 1065406/378976    3.665    0.000   26.811    0.000 ~:0(<built-in method
> sub>)
>       5328477    3.291    0.000    3.291    0.000 ~:0(<isinstance>)
> 318288/134274    2.758    0.000   23.459    0.000
> /usr/local/google/home/sgk/src/chrome/trunk1/src/third_
> party/scons/scons-local/SCons/Subst.py:397(expand)
>        187765    2.444    0.000   12.976    0.000
> /usr/local/google/home/sgk/src/chrome/trunk1/src/third_
> party/scons/scons-local/SCons/Subst.py:256(subst_dict)
> 247232/163397    2.377    0.000   37.022    0.000
> /usr/local/google/home/sgk/src/chrome/trunk1/src/third_
> party/scons/scons-local/SCons/Subst.py:370(scons_subst)
> 1196120/719778    2.178    0.000    8.685    0.000 ~:0(<getattr>)
> 708455/128574    2.138    0.000   26.550    0.000
> /usr/local/google/home/sgk/src/chrome/trunk1/src/third_
> party/scons/scons-local/SCons/Subst.py:480(substitute)
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