Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/03/17/06:29:59
On 17 Mar 2000, at 7:59, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> 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 :-)
Precompiled headers could be available not earlier than they will be
supported in GCC (if that will happen). As far as I remeber there were
related discussions in GCC mailing lists. See gcc mailing list archives
http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html
for more details
Andris
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