On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:43 PM, nathan binkert <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Are you sure?  Running SLICC every time just to get a (typically
> unchanging)
> > list of files is not exactly instantaneous, and the names of the SLICC
> > output files hardly ever change.  What about this approach:
> It is pretty fast (and this includes starting the python interpreter)
> 0.48s user 0.03s system 99% cpu 0.514 total
>
> >[...]
>
> I think you're pre-optimizing.  How long does the ISA parser actually
> take to parse the files?
>

Maybe so... I think there's a subconscious impression that it takes a while
because there's a phase in the build that takes a noticeable amount of time
and that's all the output you see.  If in fact that delay is 10% running
SLICC and 90% scons doing other stuff silently then I agree it's not such a
big deal.

One psychological solution would be to reduce the amount of output from
SLICC, making it a less obvious target for annoyance when you're waiting for
a build...

Steve
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