> I should expect most people have more than one. Oh, I have many seconds, and I'm already spending many of them, to the point that I'm not willing to just giv

> I should expect most people have more than one. Oh, I have many seconds, and I'm already spending many of them, to the point that I'm not willing to just give them out for free. In a project with dozens or hundreds of files I'm not willing to introduce a central dependency that slow down each of them by one additional second. > The good news, though probably in the distant future for you, is that C++ standard library modularisation should dramatically speed up compilation since the compiler won't need to laboriously discover all the facts about foo.h I'll believe when I see it. Have you tested it? Currently, we can't use modules at work since we're not on the newest compiler.