Hall of shame: Header compilation times

[Andrew Haley]

On 9/6/22 11:31, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> So, given this list, it seems like it would have a huge potential payoff
> to start looking more closely on assembler.hpp. Is it strictly needed
> everywhere it is included? Can it be split into multiple parts, so most
> users only need to include some smaller subsets? Etc. And then
> continuing doing the same with ciEnv.hpp and the top inline.hpp files...

Do we really want to go there? Splitting files to "help" the compiler
sounds like a time sink for the maintainers. We should be trying to
minimize that, surely. Was this with precompiled headers?

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