From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,243dc2fb696a49cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:58:55 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1095958635 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:57:15 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:57:15 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4027 Date: 2004-09-23T12:58:55-04:00 List-Id: Kevin Cline wrote: > Georg Bauhaus wrote in message news:... >>Kevin Cline wrote: ... >>Will the compilation process profit from splitting >>C++ sources into files, in general? > > No, it will get slower, in general, because opening files is about the > slowest part of compilation. The only reason to split code into > multiple files is to ease maintenance. Not just open overhead, but each separate compile requires re-digesting all the #include files that must be repeated for each unit. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg