For full builds, C++ will take longer to compile than Rust (i.e. Rust wins). This is because of C++'s #include feature and C++ templates, which nee

For full builds, C++ will take longer to compile than Rust (i.e. Rust wins). This is because of C++'s #include feature and C++ templates, which need to be compiled once per .cpp file. This compilation is done in parallel, but parallelism is imperfect. The author gives later on within the article a hint upon "and externing template instantiations". This allows to compile a template just once with a given set of template arguments. Shall reduce reduce compile-time. I assume it also reduces size of created object-files? Explicit instantiation of templates is supported since C++11. Therefore templates with one set of template arguments can be are declared in multiple files and defined just once - in one file. The keyword for this is extern upon each declaration. Please note, that all member of a template will be instantiated whether used or not. The user "strager" mentioned that briefly. see: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/class_template#Class_template_instantiation https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/class_template#Cl... https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/function_template#Function_template_instantiation https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/function_template...