RE: [GD-General] Compile times

[Michael M. (GAMES) <md...@mi...>]

Does anyone out there have a game project of 10-20MB in size (source &
header files), that builds in 5 minutes or less?  I would love to hear
about it.

I wonder if in some ways you cross an invisible line where complexity
and inter-dependency increases dramatically as your project size grows.
Similar to the way the dynamics of a team changes as you go from 8
developers to 40.

Large-scale projects are not a new beast -- there are whole books
written on the subject (J. Lakos. Large-Scale C++ Software Design, for
example).  I wonder how much of the complexity in our larger game
projects is "accidental" and how much is "essential", to borrow a term
from Brooks.  Brian has a strong suspicion much of it is accidental and
could be removed if the right choices were made during the course of
development.  I would love to see some larger projects that build
quickly so that I could gain more confidence in this theory.

-Michael