[Scons-dev] SCons tests bottleneck (Re: CI, Semaphore, Shippable)

[anatoly techtonik]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 12:03 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>> > I have asked Drone for special dispensation for long test times for
>> > SCons repositories.
>>
>> Have you tried to measure what exactly takes so much time and if it
>> is
>> possible to do something about it?
>
> Every full SCons test takes 17 to 25 minutes.

Have you tried to find out what takes the longest time to complete -
file operations, tree parsing, file reading, file writing, temp dir
creating - where the time is wasted most?