Re: [Boost-build] [BULK] Re: Sharing is caring: Visual Studio -> bjam

From: Alex Besogonov (cyberax_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-16 13:25:44

David Abrahams wrote:
>> Really? You find bjam recompilation to be slower than Visual Studio?
> It shouldn't be surprising.  An IDE will always have an advantage, at
> least if you use that IDE to edit files, because it can begin deciding
> what to do the moment you save a file.
But it should not be an order of magnitude :)

Dependency tracking in Windows is pretty slow in BJam because NTFS is 
slow. It takes 7 seconds to initialize BJam in Windows on my machine but 
only 1.5 seconds in Linux.

I think we can optimize BJam's dependency tracking by using "change 
journal" in Windows. And it doesn't even require a resident change 
tracker process.

-- 
With respect,
             Alex Besogonov (cyberax_at_[hidden])