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How Can I Reduce My Compile Times?

hoffman_jwr · 2011-04-11T08:18:18

Hi there, I am a graduate games programmer with around 6 months industry experience, and this dilemma is something that I often ponder. Up to this point, I have worked on a few projects which have grown to become substantial in size (approx. twenty - thirty thousand lines). Although I have strived for software orthogonality (i.e. modularity), and worked towards decoupling the various aspects of the systems I worked on, inevitably the projects bloat, interdependencies pop up, and compile times become long. I work in predominantly in C; I always ensure forward declarations over header includes, I use pointers wherever possible. Is it possible to modularise to the point where a module is completely free-standing? Would it be possible to place the various components of an engine into dll files (something I have never done)? On large scale projects, is this practice? - or does the solution reside in the one project file (somehow I doubt that)? dll's are windows specific; are there any platform unspecific ways to build linkable object files?

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Started by hoffman_jwr January 09, 2011 11:18 PM

20 comments, last by TSlappy 13 years ago

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April 08, 2011 04:49 AM

I'm gonna throw this in: XCode 4

Seriously, it's blazing fast. You have to have a portable codebase or be targeting OS X though obviously.

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TSlappy

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April 11, 2011 08:18 AM

In Visual Studio 2008 there is an option in Project configuration.
Click (in main menu) Project > Properties then (in left tree) C/C++ > Code generation and finally Enable minimal rebuild to Yes
Try playing with it, I suppose it is project-dependent but once I got a ~3 minutes save on compile time for C++ project with ~1000 .h and .cpp files.

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