RE: [GD-General] Compile times

[Douglas C. <zi...@ho...>]

>Okay, Quake 2 is open sourced, so I just tested it out.  On my very
>modest 2xP3/933 w/ 512MB RAM using MSVC 6, compiling ref_gl, game, and
>client, it took 37 seconds.
>
>Let me repeat: 37 seconds.

Since we just spent 1/2 a day playing with VC6 PCH setups and testing 
compile speeds I'll throw ours in. (P4 2.8 / 512mb )

Game: C++, no templates, Core/Math/Engine/Game dlls: 1:05 in release.

Editor: WTL (template heavy ATL like implementations of interface classes, 
no STL though).  Exe & 3 plugin DLLs: 1:25

MaxExporter: STL heavy (plus numerous Max headers): 15secs

So full release rebuild was 2:45.  From using C in the previous game, I can 
definitely tell a hit in compile times with C++ even without templates, but 
there is no way I'd trade 20s for C.. :)  I do think our WTL based editor 
compiles faster than the previous MFC one.

As far as some way to make STL/template builds faster, 512mb of ram and PCHs 
are about it -- which is one reason why the game code has none.  We never 
re-allocate memory after things are initially loaded, so I guess STL (at 
least containers) wouldn't have been much use anyway.

-doug



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