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mattgricetoday at 12:09 AM1 replyview on HN

Definitely not true. Otherwise we would have really fast C++ compilers and no one would ever have implemented hacks like precompiled headers.


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pjmlptoday at 7:28 AM

That hack is because of C.

Definitely true when using VC++ with C++20 modules and MSBuild.

It also helps not compiling everything from source as many UNIX folks do.

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