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From: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
To: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:52:48 +0200
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Subject: Re: precompiled headers and djgpp
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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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