reduce compilation times?

[Tom St Denis]

J.C. Pizarro wrote:
> A) When they are using "nested" templates.
> B) When there are "cyclic" dependences of compilation beetwen 2 or more files.
> C) When there are "overloading" of methods and functions, virtual and
> non-virtual.
> D) When there are macros in C++.
> E) When there are __atributes__ in C++.
>   
Without turning this into (too much of) a language war.  No, because I 
write maintainable easy to read C programs (which through structs get 
the benefits of anonymous implementations of interfaces).

> I understand it, but GCC compiler doesn't understand the "refactoring" meaning.
> GCC only understands the difference between splittled and non-splitted files,
> and how to affect him in terms of compile-time and optimization-gainining.
>   
And I'm saying that profiling and careful limited use of macros and 
static inlined functions will get you the same performance without all 
the mess.

I say this as the author of competitive cryptographic and mathematical 
libraries (the latter of which holds the rank as worlds fastest public 
domain crypto math library). 

Tom