On 2013-03-26, at 11:37, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Daniel Bratell <brat...@opera.com> wrote: > Is this something that has been talked about in the past, and would you be > interested in replacing the long list of directories to search for every > include with paths (relative some good base) directly in the include > directives? > > Using explicit paths to include files has been talked about in the past; e.g. > https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-November/018632.html > > The most convincing counter argument I can remember is that it'll make > refactoring harder because you'll have to update all #include's when you move > headers. > > It would be great if we can figure out if this also improves the build time > on Mac/Linux.
I’d be very interested on what effect, if any, this has on Mac too. My initial impression is that any improvement should be minimal since a header map is used to optimize for precisely this situation. If that mechanism isn’t helping then it would be useful to know. - Mark
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