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Re:Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software ... by jlgreco on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @08:08PM (#4874320)
How does this happen then?

"The construction of a single C++ binary at Google can open and read hundreds of individual header files tens of thousands of times."

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Re:Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software ... by cjensen on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @08:23PM (#4874369)
An excellent question which deserved an answer in the paper.
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Re:Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software ... by georgemcbay on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @09:15PM (#4874516)
Walter Bright (who created D to solve some of the same problems Go aims to solve) wrote something a few years back which touches on this topic:

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/c-compilation-speed/228701711

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