Re: Performance issues with Cons

[Warren_Baird]

> The performance penalty is the cost of correctness. Cons is analyzing every
dependency before it does anything.

I certainly understand that ---  however, as I said in my other post, I'd like a
way for developers to say: "I'm pretty sure that the dependancies haven't
changed since the last time you built them - please don't rescan everything".

>You might find the scripting capabilities of gnu-make lacking. We looked at
using gnu-make, but we got our Cons
> prototype working so quickly we abandoned the thought.

I've used gnu-make enough to know that I really don't like it...  Switching to
gnu-make is really quite low on my list of priorities...  If we can't figure out
how to do this with cons, my inclination is to suggest we switch to scons, which
already supports a feature like this...

Frankly, I'm tempted to suggest switching to scons anyways, since it doesn't
look like there's a lot of interest in working on cons, but scons still seems to
have a fairly active development community...

Warren