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Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by mort96 on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:19AM (#44308130)
> 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.

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Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by writebetterc on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:30AM (#44308200)
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.
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