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Can someone using modules chime in on whether they’ve seen build times improve?

• nickelpro 9mo ago
  import std; is an order of magnitude faster than using the STL individually, if that's evidence enough for you. It's faster than #include <iostream> alone. Chuanqi says "The data I have obtained from practice ranges from 25% to 45%, excluding the build time of third-party libraries, including the standard library."[1] [1]: https://chuanqixu9.github.io/c++/2025/08/14/C++20-Modules.en.html#how-much-compile-time-can-c20-modules-save https://chuanqixu9.github.io/c++/2025/08/14/C++20-Modules.en...
  • luke5441 9mo ago
    Yeah, but now compare this to pre-compiled headers. Maybe we should be happy with getting a standard way to have pre-compiled std headers, but now my build has a "scanning" phase which takes up some time.
    • direwolf20 9mo ago
      Modules are a lot like precompiled headers, but done properly and not as a hack.
    • nickelpro 9mo ago
      The OP does this and measures ~1.2x improvement over PCH.
• vitaut 9mo ago
  We did see build time improvements from deploying modules at Meta.