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There are a few overriding principles we try to live up to in designing and implementing SCons:
First and foremost, by default, SCons guarantees a correct build even if it means sacrificing performance a little. We strive to guarantee the build is correct regardless of how the software being built is structured, how it may have been written, or how unusual the tools are that build it.
Given that the build is correct, we try to make SCons build software as quickly as possible. In particular, wherever we may have needed to slow down the default SCons behavior to guarantee a correct build, we also try to make it easy to speed up SCons through optimization options that let you trade off guaranteed correctness for speed.
SCons tries to do as much for you out of the box as reasonable, including detecting the right tools on your system and using them correctly to build the software.
In a nutshell, we try hard to make SCons just "do the right thing" and build software correctly, with a minimum of hassles.
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