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		nottorp on Jan 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Modern” C++ Lamentations (2018) > Compile times matter in extreme cases, but 3 seconds is not really something I would worry about. 3 seconds for 50 lines of code. How many seconds for 100k lines of code?

lionkor on Jan 12, 2022 [–]

As always, the answer is "benchmark it". It might be 3 seconds for 50 lines, but also 3 seconds for 5k lines, since the heavy stuff has been compiled once.

Benchmark it, otherwise it's sadly not useful

nottorp on Jan 12, 2022 | [–]

I've managed to quite succesfully stay away from C++ lately thank you.

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