Compilation strategy

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 02:22:04PM +0100, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 16.12.2012 13:13, schrieb Blub:
> >>On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 16:55 +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> >>>A quick straw poll.  Do people prefer to have all sources compiled
> >>>in a single compiler call, or (more like C++) separate compilation
> >>>of each object followed by a link call.
> >
> >Separate compilation imposes continuous re-processing of files.
> 
> Since when?
> 
> The main idea about modules is exactly to only process files when
> they are compiled, once.
> 
> Don't mix modules with C and C++ translation units.
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Importing the same file from many different places requires the compiler
to reparse it each time, if those places are compiled during separate
compiler runs.


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