Re: [gtkmm] Compilation time

["xavier dufresne" <xdufresne gmx fr>]

Thanks for your answer.

> 3) boost the computer -- SMP does well with g++ and make -j3 ;)

Is g++ multithreaded or only 'make -j' takes advantage of the SMP ?

Xavier


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Daniel Elstner <daniel elstner gmx net>
To: xavier dufresne <xdufresne gmx fr>
Cc: gtkmm-list <gtkmm-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [gtkmm] Compilation time


> Hi,
> 
> first of all, please don't send HTML mail to this list.
> 
> Am Sam, 2002-09-21 um 21.41 schrieb xavier dufresne:
> > On my computer (AMD K6 400Mhz SDRAM 200Mo running RedHat 7.3), it take
> > 15s to process the gtkmm.h file. It's a waste of time to wait for 15s
> > per file when you are developping. Is there a way to increase the
> > compilation speed (expect boosting the computer), such as (MS VC++)
> > pre-compiled header, ...
> 
> 1) don't #include <gtkmm.h>, but the specific widget's headers (that
> could be quite a lot of files)
> 2) don't use -O2 for devel builds
> 3) boost the computer -- SMP does well with g++ and make -j3 ;)
> 
> I heard there's a gcc branch supporting pre-built header files, but it
> seems to be still far away from a release -- dunno if it'll ever get
> there.
> 
> Still, compiling C++ source will always be *way* slower than building C
> source.  That's a problem we all have to cope with, unfortunately.
> 
> Cheers,
> --Daniel
> 
>