3 ms·

I just pray that modules will one day let developers speed up compile times. Toolchain complexity, size and slowness are the only things that make me use pytho

• lionkor 6y ago
  clang and MSVC both already (partially) support modules! other than that, gcc is the most c++20-feature-complete compiler
• pjmlp 6y ago
  My C++ coding on Windows with VC++ is usually faster than Rust coding, because of incremental compiler, incremental linking and using binary libraries for 3rd party dependencies (DLL/COM). I think when modules mature, it can eventually reach Delphi/.NET like compile speeds.
• jcelerier 6y ago
  > I just pray that modules will one day let developers speed up compile times. Compiles times are not a problem if you use adequate tools. I have a codebase that heavily uses some large libs such as boost and Qt, here's a video of the edit-compile-run cycle: https://streamable.com/o2g765 https://streamable.com/o2g765 compilation when editing a file takes one-two seconds (measured it at 101 frames in the video in this case, so a bit less than 2 seconds). If anyone's wondering how it's done: - Clang & lld instead of GCC & bfd/gold - Ninja instead of Make (or anything else really) - CMake target_precompile_headers - Code split in dynamic libraries for dev builds There aren't even advanced tricks such as incremental linking mentioned by other comments.