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Re: Pre-compiled headers
>>>>> Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>:
> But beyond that, perhaps pre-compiled headers is not the best
> solution. What we want to do is speed up compilation, specifically
> speed up compilation of large projects with many header files and
> many program files.
For me, on a PII400, w/256MB of RAM, running SuSE linux 6.2, and
egcs-1.1.2, it is linking and not compilation which is the
bottleneck.
In particular linking of .so's consisting of .o-files compiled with
C++ debug information. These object files are about 10 times the size
of the ones without debug info.