SCons build tool speed

[Neil Hodgson]

   ted:

> How does the speed of the Scons build tool compare with Ant?
> Right now with out Ant builds take around an hour. Hoping to
> speed that up.

   Scons emphasises accuracy over speed and is normally a little slower than
other build tools although still fast enough for most purposes. One cause of
slowness is that it reads the source files, traces include files and
checksums them all rather than relying on file times. There are some things
you can do to speed it up:
http://www.scons.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GoFastButton

   Neil