Re: [Boost-build] Is there any way to prevent Boost.Build fromrecursively scanning header files for #include directives?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Is there any way to prevent Boost.Build fromrecursively scanning header files for #include directives?
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-28 17:01:51

Johan Nilsson skrev:
> Lin Luo wrote:

> Regarding speed improvements: For a specific project I went from 42s to 
> 28s for a null build (no updates) from root when using "--fastbuild" 
> (after warming up the disk cache before each attempt). The actual 
> improvement obviously depends on how many skipped/static headers you 
> actually use, so YMMV.

So it does seem like there is some speedup to gain.

I think it takes quite a while before bjam actually calls the compiler 
on my platform. It would be great if it could be improved.

-Thorsten