Re: PCH support

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2011/12/26 Olaf van der Spek <address@hidden>:
>>> Faster enough to be worth the annoyance for the developer of twisting
>>> his source code to fit the "pch style" (which seems notably uglier)?
>>
>> Yes
>> I'm not sure what twisting you're referring too though.
>
> Another comment noted that PCH was often ineffective or even
> counter-productive unless the bulk of your includes are precisely the
> same between compilation units, and that in practice systems like VS
> try to get the user to define a single "include everything" header
> file (presumably instead of the normal practice of "include the stuff
> you use").
>
> Sounds pretty darn ugly (and I expect makes compile times far worse if
> you _can't_ use PCH in some case)...

Is someone forcing you to use PCH? I'm not sure what your point is.


-- 
Olaf