[Scons-dev] SCons Node.FS.Base _get_str method appears to cause a lot of calls to os.stat

[Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON)]

This:
 
 702 -    def _get_str(self): 
 703          global Save_Strings 
 704          if self.duplicate or self.is_derived(): 
 705              return self.get_path() 
 706          srcnode = self.srcnode() 
 707          if srcnode.stat() is None and self.stat() is not None: 
 708              result = self.get_path() 
 709          else: 
 710              result = srcnode.get_path() 
 711          if not Save_Strings: 
 712              # We're not at the point where we're saving the string 
 713              # representations of FS Nodes (because we haven't finished 
 714              # reading the SConscript files and need to have str() return 
 715              # things relative to them).  That also means we can't yet 
 716              # cache values returned (or not returned) by stat(), since 
 717              # Python code in the SConscript files might still create 
 718              # or otherwise affect the on-disk file.  So get rid of the 
 719              # values that the underlying stat() method saved. 
 720              try: del self._memo['stat'] 
 721              except KeyError: pass 
 722              if self is not srcnode: 
 723                  try: del srcnode._memo['stat'] 
 724                  except KeyError: pass 
 725          return result 
 726   

appears to be responsible for a huge number of stat calls in our build. I'm a little confused as I don't see why the file *name* should change as the result of Python code in the SConscript files. Shouldn't it be calling self.exists or self.rexists (admittedly I'm not sure which one right now).
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