RE: [Algorithms] OT: Include hell

[Tom F. <to...@mu...>]

Precompiled headers can speed up compiling enormously (we got a 4x speed
increase on whole-project rebuilds). There's stuff in the archives about
setting them up in VC6.

Tom Forsyth - Muckyfoot bloke.

What's he up to now (and can I have a go)?
http://www.eidosinteractive.com/downloads/search.html?gmid=86

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergei Miloikov [mailto:se...@ha...]
> Sent: 01 August 2001 16:23
> To: gda...@li...
> Subject: [Algorithms] OT: Include hell
> 
> 
> Little offtopic, but I remember of slightly related 
> discussion right here so
> here it goes:
> We have problem with our compile time - our in-house tool 
> shown that from
> 160K lines of code compiler must parse about 2.5M lines not 
> including STL
> (77Mb text). I have been searching for some tool for 
> profiling the source
> code structure and especially the include hierarchies, but 
> found none. So,
> does somebody know such a tool? It will be cool if it can 
> determine when
> there is no need of a header, this will be difinitely of 
> great help, because
> after some reorganizations of source code I found that there are such
> useless includes everywhere. And I have a question - how 
> other people decide
> where to put constants? It seems that even if everything is 
> ideal (single
> class - single header), if the class is some big, templated 
> piece of lots of
> inlined code and there is single constant I feel very 
> confused to include it
> because of that constant! Placing all the constants inside 
> single file is
> pain indeed. Any comments?
>   Sergei Miloikov, programmer at Haemimont AD
> 
> 
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