[gameprogrammer] Re: Blog post on improving compile and link speeds of C++ projects

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 08:49:27AM -0700, Kevin Jenkins wrote:

> 3. Split up your header into independent classes/structs/enums as much 
> as possible.

Generally, I agree with this advice (and the others, too), but watch out
for going too far and having too many .h files.  In that case, file
access times reportedly may begin to dominate the build time, possibly
neutralizing gains from not including more than needed.  I don't have
links handy but see www.gamesfromwithin.com/articles/0403/000013.html
under "Single Compilation Unit" heading.  The huge speedup gained by
that hack comes probably (among others) from not having to access disk
so often.

I haven't done any research myself, though.

        latimerius



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