Re: Speedy compilers

> [ re the lesson that customers want fast compilers ]
>
> The lesson still applies, but there is no fast C++ compiler on Windows
> (not because C++ is slow but because these compilers all include
> megabytes of Windows header files by default). I think a compiler
> that uses precompilation in a sensible manner will blow the socks off
> all existing C++ compilers. For example, by keeping a precompiled file
> for every source file instead of a single precompiled header that has
> to fit all sources. Even better would be a segmented precompiled file
> that could restart compilation in increments of, say, 1000 lines
> (i.e. dump out the compiler state every 1000 LOC, and for each new
> compilation, look how far the source is unchanged and restart
> compilation at that point).


Take a look at the Visual Age C++ 4.0 compiler when it comes out. It
has incremental compiling for only what you have changed along with
precompiled headers.


Ken Walter

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