My previous look at SCons performance compared SCons and gmake on a variety of build scenarios — full, incremental, and clean. A few people suggested that I try the tips given on the SCons ‘GoFastButton’ wiki page, which are said to significantly improve SCons performance (at the cost of some accuracy, of course). Naturally, I [Read More →]

UPDATE: In response to comments here and elsewhere, I’ve done another series of SCons builds using the tips on the SCons ‘GoFastButton’ wiki page. You can view the results here A few months ago, I took a look at the scalability of SCons, a popular Python-based build tool. The results were disappointing, to say the [Read More →]

The marquee feature in ElectricAccelerator 5.0 is Electrify, a new front-end to the Accelerator cluster that allows us to distribute work from a wide variety of processes in addition to the make-based processes that we have always managed. One example is SCons, an alternative build system implemented in Python that has a small (compared to [Read More →]