Why C++ compiles slowly

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Aug 25 11:39:40 PDT 2010


Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> But it's a moot point, since purity *is* mangled into the symbol name.

Yes, that's done because the caller of a function may depend on that function's 
purity. Changing the name mangling when purity changes will ensure that the 
caller gets recompiled as well.


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