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Re: Problem with PFE approach [Was: Faster compilation speed]

From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
To: "Timothy J. Wood" <tjw at omnigroup dot com>
Cc: Devang Patel <dpatel at apple dot com>, Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:39:24 +0100
Subject: Re: Problem with PFE approach [Was: Faster compilation speed]
References: <E0445626-B158-11D6-95B0-00039362EF82@apple.com> <8E0101B0-B15F-11D6-8859-0003938E4E3C@omnigroup.com>

Timothy J. Wood wrote:-

>   The fact that you have to build this massive single header that acts 
> as a prefix header is the broken part -- implementation details like 
> this should not be exposed to the user.  Just like Apple doesn't make 
> users manually configure their Apache server for personal web sharing, 
> Apple shouldn't make their developers do a bunch of work to get decent 
> compile speeds.  It should "Just Work (TM)".

I agree.  Borland, MS and KAI managed this, so we should too.

Neil.

References:
- Re: Problem with PFE approach [Was: Faster compilation speed]
  - From: Devang Patel
- Re: Problem with PFE approach [Was: Faster compilation speed]
  - From: Timothy J. Wood

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