Re: [Boost-build] Why does BBv2 doesn't use .jamdeps?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-25 03:10:37

On Tuesday 25 April 2006 10:59, Alex Besogonov wrote:
> I wonder why BBv2 doesn't use Jam's header depcache? I've stumbled upon
> it while wading through jam's sources.
>
> Dependency cache is is used in BBv1 and it really imporves compilation
> speed (especially, on Windows machines).
>
> Today I've tried to compile my project with .jamdeps turned on
> ("modules.poke : HCACHEFILE : .jamdeps ;" in my Jamroot) and it has
> compiled without problems.

Did you observe any performance boost as the result of that? If so, what are 
the numbers?

- Volodya

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