Problem with PFE approach [Was: Faster compilation speed]

Neil Booth neil@daikokuya.co.uk
Fri Aug 16 14:39:00 GMT 2002


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.



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