Re: [V2] toolset msvc efficiency

From: janssoaf (mail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-05 04:09:24

Volodya,

> Is the grows indeed exponential? I'd suspect that the number of libs 
> should be twice as much as the number for gcc.

The whole project has 10 top level dependencies when using the gcc
toolset, but 2762 top level dependencies when using the msvc toolset.

> Rather strange. Maybe, you can send me profiles for both gcc and
msvc, > so that I can take a deeper look. This might be the known
scalability > problem with checks for unused sources, that Pedro has
already repor- > ted and which will be fixed pretty soon. Or some
other problem that we > don't know about yet.

I've sent excerpts from the bjam log files to your SourceForge address.

Thanks, Olaf