Re: sconsign database discussion

On 2/23/21 2:50 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>  > There's been some discussion of making sconsign be a "real" database,
>  > not least because the "dump the entire dictionary (pickling as we go) to
>  > database on exit" behavior is pretty irritating - quite a slow operation
>  > if you didn't do any work.
> 
> Can we start with some digits? Otherwise how do we know that the new
> way is actually solving the problem.

Certainly won't be pushed without benchmarking, and likely would be an 
opt-in, rather than default, for a while anyway.

I did get a quick implementation going, and the informal timing I did on 
that were somewhat disappointing.