Hi Gary,

On 02.12.2012 17:58, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
This looks very interesting. Speed and memory use are two "hot button" issues for many SCons users.

What does it do that would break existing projects? Is it the not storing of full paths? (When were slots introduced? 2.2? In that case we're fine on that front.)


all the path attributes for File nodes ("abspath", "labspath" ...) have now to be retrieved via functions like "get_abspath()", because they might get computed on the fly. They usually get accessed directly in old code...and this is also the recommended method in all the documents.

This change is the last in line, so it can be easily omitted for a start...it brings just a few percent anyway.

Regarding the usage of slots we have to keep the following in mind: it makes extending SCons a little bit more difficult. You can't simply slap new attributes and functions on a class like SCons.Node anymore, but have to subclass it instead. Multiple inheritance is not possible anymore for the "slotted" classes...so we'd lose some flexibility for SCons as a build system framework.

Regards,

Dirk

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