Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:59:02 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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Subject: Re: precompiled headers and djgpp
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Prashant TR wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
> 
> > Do you have any problems with GCC compilation speed?  It takes a few 
> > seconds on any mildly modern CPU (unless you compile a 10,000-line
> > source file), so how much can be gained by storing precompiled header
> > files, anyway?
> 
> And what's more annoying about pre-compiled headers is that they take up
> huge amount of space usually.

True, but IMHO precompiled headers are a absolute neccesity when it come
to programming windoze apps with C, as I am sure that no one would want to
wait for another fifteen seconds for the header files to be included after
just adding a new line of code and compiling :-)

Kalum
 

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