Re: [Boost-build] [PING] State of PCH/msvc

From: Philip Craig (philip_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-26 09:57:36

> Phillip Seaver <phil_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> boost build can't be used for serious projects in msvc++ until all of 
>> pch and -jn (where n > 1) and pdb are working.
>> The performance hit for switching to boost build is just too great 
>> without these things.
> Sure, it can.  :-)  I'm currently building 9 programs (1 COM object and
> 2 Windows GUI programs) on Windows 

Ok fair point. If you need cross platform that can outweigh the 
performance hit. But if you don't (and many don't) then boost build is 
not in the ballpark for windows only development. I wish it was.