[OT] Clang seems to implement modules

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 20.11.2012 21:57, schrieb Walter Bright:
>
> Since people already use precompiled headers with C++, I don't think
> this change has much chance of making it compile faster.
>

Is it really so?

I would expect that with proper modules C++ compilers could achieve 
compile times similar to what other module based languages offer. 
Specially if templates are also stored in a module friendly format.

But then again I lack enough compiler development experience to be able 
to judge that.

Assuming you're right, then C++ is really a lost cause, and the current 
trend of standards might follow what happened to Extended ISO Pascal, 
which vendors ignored in favour of Turbo Pascal as the defacto standard.

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Paulo