Re: speeding up compile times in C++

"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@rahul.net>
Sat, 4 Feb 1995 10:45:44 GMT

          From comp.compilers

Related articles
speeding up compile times in C++ amichail@cs.toronto.edu (1995-01-26)
Re: speeding up compile times in C++ thutt@clark.net (1995-01-26)
Re: speeding up compile times in C++ glwinter@infi.net (1995-01-29)
Re: speeding up compile times in C++ shankar@sgi.com (1995-02-02)
Re: speeding up compile times in C++ glasss@ncp.gpt.co.uk (Steve Glass) (1995-02-03)
Re: speeding up compile times in C++ thutt@clark.net (1995-02-04)
Re: speeding up compile times in C++ rfg@rahul.net (Ronald F. Guilmette) (1995-02-04)
Re: speeding up compile times in C++ imp@boulder.openware.com (1995-02-06)
Re: speeding up compile times in C++ green@vizbiz.com (Anthony T. Green) (1995-02-06)
Re: speeding up compile times in C++ shankar@sgi.com (1995-02-08)
Re: speeding up compile times in C++ tmb@netcom.com (1995-02-12)
| List of all articles for this month |

Newsgroups: comp.compilers
From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@rahul.net>
Keywords: C++, performance
Organization: a2i network
References: 95-01-073
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 10:45:44 GMT

Amir Michail <amichail@cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
>One problem with writing large C++ projects is that changing one or two
>header files often results in much of the project being recompiled. This
>is partly due to the class hierarchies and derivation.
>
>I was thinking of a way around this problem...


An excelent paper on this topic is ``Encapsulating a C++ Library'' by
Mark Linton. It appears in the 1992 USENIX C++ Conference Proceedings
(pp. 57-66; ISBN 1-880446-45-6).


If you are designing _any_ large body of C++ code, reading this paper
is an absolute must.


-- Ron Guilmette, Sunnyvale, CA
---- E-mail: rfg@segfault.us.com
--


Post a followup to this message

Return to the comp.compilers page.
Search the comp.compilers archives again.