Re: Baby X is bor nagain

On 20/06/2024 22:31, Vir Campestris wrote:

On 17/06/2024 14:43, David Brown wrote:

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Compilation speed is important to everyone. That's why so many tricks are used to get around the lack of speed in a big compiler, or so many extra resources are thrown at the problem.

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What "tricks" ?

 Precompiled headers sprang to mind in about half a second.
 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precompiled_header>
 Andy

These are used primarily in C++, where you often have /very/ large headers that require a significant amount of analysis.  In C, this is not remotely the same scale of problem.  C headers are usually far shorter - and far simpler to process.  (In a quick test on my system, #include <stdio.h> pulled in 792 lines, while #include <iostream> took 28152 lines.)
In C++, compilation speed /is/ an issue.  That's why we now have modules there.