http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2005/09/28/looking-ahead-not-back/ A blog about nothing Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:14:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2005/09/28/looking-ahead-not-back/#comment-3849 numerodix blog » Blog Archive » give it up for scons Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:50:40 +0000 #comment-3849 [...] A while back I was praising ant for being an improvement over make. And it is, it’s smoother, it’s nicer, it’s more suited to the needs we have from a build tool today, make is ancient afterall. But then ant has it’s problems.. the xml configuration scripts are a bit cumbersome and unnecessarily complicated (I mean who actually enjoys writing xml?) aaaand it’s java based. Nice for portability, bad for speed. If you’re building eclipse and you set up ant to do it, big deal, it takes forever anyway, the overhead in a java build tool won’t bother you. But if you have a dozen java source files and you’re working on some small project, you could still use a build tool to keep building more streamlined and organized, but ant won’t feel like such a great choice anymore. Because making one small change in a source file will launch ant to rebuild that class. And even though compiling java doesn’t take that long, launching ant itself probably takes longer. So there’s a tangible overhead. Launching the vm itself takes a little while. [...] [...] A while back I was praising ant for being an improvement over make. And it is, it’s smoother, it’s nicer, it’s more suited to the needs we have from a build tool today, make is ancient afterall. But then ant has it’s problems.. the xml configuration scripts are a bit cumbersome and unnecessarily complicated (I mean who actually enjoys writing xml?) aaaand it’s java based. Nice for portability, bad for speed. If you’re building eclipse and you set up ant to do it, big deal, it takes forever anyway, the overhead in a java build tool won’t bother you. But if you have a dozen java source files and you’re working on some small project, you could still use a build tool to keep building more streamlined and organized, but ant won’t feel like such a great choice anymore. Because making one small change in a source file will launch ant to rebuild that class. And even though compiling java doesn’t take that long, launching ant itself probably takes longer. So there’s a tangible overhead. Launching the vm itself takes a little while. [...]

]]> http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2005/09/28/looking-ahead-not-back/#comment-513 Erik Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:09:57 +0000 #comment-513 That's cause the people behind us (at school too, that's right) are even worse off. It's all about progress. That's why I can't stand the people with higher marks like me at university but I don't care about those who are worse :D That’s cause the people behind us (at school too, that’s right) are even worse off. It’s all about progress. That’s why I can’t stand the people with higher marks like me at university but I don’t care about those who are worse

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