Vladimir Prus <ghost <at> cs.msu.su> writes:

>> One thing I'd like to see is a breadth-first dependency checker.  That
>> would allow us to discover early on that something needs to be rebuilt
>> in most of the common cases, so we could start rebuilding it
>> immediately and continue the dependency check while that build is
>> running.  That would be a win even on most uniprocessor systems, and
>> on SMP or cluster builds it would kick *ss.  Of course, the structure
>> of Jam is incompatible with that approach.  I believe that Scons is
>> more adaptable to it.
>
> I think most time is spend before building dependency graph so this
> won't give us much.

a. Doesn't that really depend on the structure of the project, and
   probably also whether the source is on a local disk?

b. That's part of the problem, too.  It ought to be possible to build
   part of the dependency graph quickly and let construction start
   early.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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