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Eric Melski
Personal blog · blog.melski.net · on HN as emelskiprogramming
Eric Melski's personal blog at blog.melski.net covers programming. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “SCons Is Still Slow”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on build tools, mainly SCons performance and Makefile tips. One commenter points readers to the SCons post on build times growing quadratically with targets.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
musings on the craft of software development, data visualization and more
Most-linked posts?
- SCons Is Still Slow3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-19
- Print the value, origin, and flavor of Makefile variables2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-02
What Hacker News says?
Better article from years ago, that this blogger is probably rehashing anyway: http://blog.melski.net/2010/11/30/makefile-hacks-print-the-v...
Comment linking /2010/11/30/makefile-hacks-print-the-value-of-any-variable/
on “One line you should add to every makefile”Submitted Makefile hacks: print the value of any variable (2010) as a story · 90 points
HN discussionYou can actually articulate that relationship in GNU make, as long as your outputs can be coerced into a pattern rule (like "%.c %.h: %.y"). Otherwise there's no way to do it that's reliable in the face of both incremental and full builds. There's been discussion of adding syntax to GNU make for this purpose on-and-off over the past several years, but nobody can seem to agree on what the syntax should be. With Elect…
Comment linking /2013/01/01/pragma-multi-and-rules-with-multiple-outputs-in-gnu-make/
on “Make: Theory and Practice”Submitted SCons Is Still Slow as a story · 7 points
HN discussionRebuttal here: https://blog.melski.net/2013/12/11/update-scons-is-still-rea...
Comment linking /2013/12/11/update-scons-is-still-really-slow/
on “SCons is not slow”Submitted Tips for writing robust, maintainable unit tests as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIn that case you might really love "...SCons, a popular Python-based build tool. In a nutshell, my experiments showed that SCons exhibits roughly quadratic growth in build runtimes as the number of targets increases" [0] [0] https://blog.melski.net/2013/12/11/update-scons-is-still-rea...
Comment linking /2013/12/11/update-scons-is-still-really-slow/
on “Why SQLite Does Not Use Git”Submitted Makefile hacks: print the value of any variable (2010) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted LEGO "Ship It" Awards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Print the value, origin, and flavor of Makefile variables as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud computing for traditional dev/test as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Makefile hacks: print the value of any variable (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Makefile hacks: print the value of any variable (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Makefile hacks: print the value of any variable (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Playing” with agile as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Makefile hacks: print the value of any variable (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Makefile hacks: print the value of any variable (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Makefile hacks: print the value of any variable (2010) as a story · 1 points
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