Re: [Boost-users] Boost and C++ "physical design"

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost and C++ "physical design"
From: Raindog (raindog_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-21 14:05:27

Yang Zhang wrote:
> Václav Haisman wrote:
>> Any decent compiler supports precompiled headers. Those help quite
>> significantly with compilation time of source that uses Boost, IME.
>
> I (and others) have found that precompiled headers don't actually help 
> that much with build time.  It only saves on parsing and name lookup 
> time, not on code generation time.
In my experience, code generation time is minuscule compared to the rest 
of the process, especially with libraries like spirit and xpressive.