[petsc-dev] Could generatefortranstubs.py be lazier about modification times?

[Jed Brown]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 17:14, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, this is really crap. Make that POS use a better predicate than
> "modified", like "checksum changed".
> This is what builder does ;)

That is what SCons does too, it's the slowest build system ever.  If
you have to read the contents of a file to determine whether it is
current, then incremental rebuilds take a long time and dispatch of
parallel jobs is slow.

Jed