[C++-sig] Re: Big slow compilation

[David Abrahams]

"Niall Douglas" <s_sourceforge at nedprod.com> writes:

> That's the price of heavy template usage. Mine takes over an hour 
> with a dual-processor 1700 machine with MSVC and more like six hours 
> with GCC 3.2 uniprocessor.
>
> To my knowledge, your only solution is the usual - GCC v3.4 (when the 
> precompiled headers are fixed), faster machine, distcc and also 
> consider applying that patch removing symbol folding which takes 
> O(N^2) on GCC. Search the list archives. Lastly, also consider a 
> faster compiler eg; Borland, Intel C++ etc.

Borland doesn't work with Boost.Python and Intel C++ is slower than
GCC last time I checked.

Better suggestions for speed are Metrowerks or MSVC.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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