Re: [Boost-users] Boost and C++ "physical design"

Yang Zhang wrote:

Václav Haisman wrote:

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Any decent compiler supports precompiled headers. Those help quite significantly with compilation time of source that uses Boost, IME.

I (and others) have found that precompiled headers don't actually help that much with build time. It only saves on parsing and name lookup time, not on code generation time. In my experience, code generation time is minuscule compared to the rest of the process, especially with libraries like spirit and xpressive.