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Re: [RFC] precompiled headers

 

On 03/11/17 14:50, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On 03.11.2017 09:57, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> 
>> The goal of this patch is to limit the inclusion of boost headers, which
>> cause a huge slowdown in compilation time.
> 
> Would it make sense to build a precompiled header will all of Boost and
> wx that we use?
> 

A quick test with precompiled headers for the P&S router (single
threaded build)
- without: 1m54.329s
- with:	0m35.946s

Almost 300% speedup.

Simon, do you have experience with adding PCH support in CMake scripts?
If so, this would be *****extremely***** useful!

Cheers,
Tom


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