[Python-Dev] Precompiled headers

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Martin v. Loewis wrote
> Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> writes:
> 
> > Also, are precompiled headers an Apple addition to gcc, or are they
> > available on all platforms?
> 
> It's an Apple addition. Apple has a long-standing plan to contribute
> this back, but there are several things in the way; mainly that it is
> a large ugly hack.

If it's anything like the way the old Lucid C++ compiler did it, it'll
be just coredumping the preprocessor's state. We always found that it
wasn't worthwhile unless you were dealing with something like OI's 
1.something megabytes of headers...

Anthony

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