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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost and C++ "physical design"
From: Yang Zhang (yanghatespam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-20 14:11:00


Václav Haisman wrote:
> Any decent compiler supports precompiled headers. Those help quite
> significantly with compilation time of source that uses Boost, IME.

I (and others) have found that precompiled headers don't actually help
that much with build time. It only saves on parsing and name lookup
time, not on code generation time.

-- 
Yang Zhang
http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/

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