Compilation time

[Zack Weinberg]

Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> writes:

> I agree.  We've found that in some cases preprocessor time can be
> significant.

I'd like to see examples.

> We've also found that the sum of preprocessing time and time to
> compile a .ii file is greater than the time to compile the .cc file
> to begin with.

This is inevitable -- work is done twice.  (Also, generation of the
.ii file is slow, as no one has bothered to make it fast.)

zw