yes, and that's using the Pimpl idiom to decouple things can improve build times. If your whole codebase rebuilds everytime a header is touched, then your heade

yes, and that's using the Pimpl idiom to decouple things can improve build times. If your whole codebase rebuilds everytime a header is touched, then your headers are probably not correctly organized. Having minimal headers (using forwards decls as much as possible) is vital to keeping rebuild times down.