> I don't know the exact amounts of time per phase, but you might change a header file and that will of course hurt you a lot more than 1 translation unit.
Yeah, which is why I was talking about source files. I was surprised that changing 1 source file (meaning re-compiling that one source file and then re-linking the project) takes 10 minutes. If you're changing header files then yeah it's gonna take longer.
Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
by writebetterc on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:30AM
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FWIW, I've heard from people who know this stuff that linking is actually super slow for us :). I also wanted to try out mold, but I couldn't manage to get it to work.
I don't know the exact amounts of time per phase, but you might change a header file and that will of course hurt you a lot more than 1 translation unit.
> Eh, not really. Working with a binary where all variables are optimized out and all operators are inlined is hell.
Yeah, but sometimes that's life. Reading the assembly and what not to figure things out.
>That must absolutely suck to work with.
Well, you know, I also get to work on something approximately as exciting as Chromium.