Re: [Boost-users] filesystem headers

From: John Femiani (JOHN.FEMIANI_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-29 16:45:40

Emil Dotchevski wrote: 
> <JOHN.FEMIANI_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > I second that -- I am quite curious about how much overhead various 
> > headers/libraries impose when you include tham, and when 
> you actually 
> > use them (which seems to be a lot more expensive on msvc).  Quick 
> > compile-test-correct cycles are important to me. I don't 
> know the best 
> > way to even measure this.
> 
> In my opinion it is pointless to measure compile times. 
> Instead, headers should be designed in a way that allows user 
> code to not "see"
> anything that is not strictly necessary to compile a 
> particular user cpp file.
> 

So are you recommending that path should not be part of a public
interface, since a path can be represented by a string?
Or are you saying that it is not worth measuring the cost of all-header
libraries that include too much per header since they should be
refactored anyways?

-- John