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Re: Precompiled headers and General Parsing of Header File
Jason Merrill wrote:
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> >>>>> Kevin Atkinson <kevina@clark.net> writes:
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> > Jason Merrill wrote:
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> >> >>>>> Kevin Atkinson <kevina@clark.net> writes:
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> >> > Also have you considered the idea of not fully parsing the header files
> >> > with template information in it ot help speed up compiling of code that
> >> > uses the STL.
> >>
> > I understand that not parsing template definitions also means not catching
> > syntax errors until they are instantiated, however to me that is a minor
> > drawback which can easily be fixed with a command line option...
>
> That way lies madness. There will only be one implementation of templates
> in the compiler.
Well I am not going to argue with you here becuase I would just make a fool
out of myself. As I have 0 experence in writting compilers.
> > Truefully I find the compile time for code that uses the STL ridiculously
> > slow and there seams to me that they has got to be a way to speed things
> > up by a factor of 1/2 or more...
>
> Try profiling the compiler to see where it's spending all of its time.
How would I do that? Sorry for the ignorance.