Re: [Boost-users] build times

From: Noel Yap (noel.yap_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-04 11:29:03

Have you tried distributing your build?

On 11/4/05, gast128 <gast128_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> we use boost a lot in our code, but unfortunately this slows down the build
> times enormously. Although we use the precompiled header in Visual Studio,
> tracing the includes (with the /showincludes option), it seems that even
> relatively basic libraries (e.g. tuples, boost\utility.hpp, boost function and
> boost bind) end up in a massive include of mpl and type traits header files.
>
> So I begin to wonder if this wonderful template and preprocessor stuff is
> really such a good idea for those basic library. Besides that it doesn't
> improve the readability of the source, my guess is that it has a negative
> effect on short build times.
>
> Can a boost guru comment on this? Note that this is not a criticism, only an
> observation. I always like to write a boost bind construction, especailly with
> the == addition in 1.33.
>
> Wkr,
> me
>
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