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

[David Abrahams]

"Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <rwgk at yahoo.com> writes:

> Thanks to Bruno a.k.a Nicodemus there is a nice section on "Reducing compile
> times" in the CVS version of the Boost.Python tutorial:
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost/libs/python/doc/tutorial/doc/quickstart.txt?rev=1.19&view=auto
>
> Splitting up your project in suitable ways will make a big difference for your
> development work. I have a project that takes an hour to compile from scratch
> (with one CPU), but recompiling the bit that I am working on often takes less
> than a minute. Unless I am changing core facilities like my array bindings. In
> that case I am sure to use parallel builds (scons -j or bjam -j) which cuts
> down recompiling from scratch to a little over 15 minutes on a $3k PC (2 CPU
> Xeon with hyper threading turned on) with gcc 3.2.
>
> Ralf

Using -j2 actually reduces build times even for single-processor
computers.

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Dave Abrahams
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