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by comex 3356 days ago
Precompiled headers never worked well due to a variety of limitations.

C++ modules, on the other hand, will be like precompiled headers done right. If they ever get standardized. They didn't make it into C++17, and the prototype implementations in Clang and MSVC are incompatible with each other, but I guess it'll happen someday…
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maccard 3356 days ago
> Precompiled headers never worked well due to a variety of limitations.

We use precompiled headers on a large project, we've never had any issue with them (MSVC and GCC)> Care to elaborate on the limitations?

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gruez 3356 days ago
>Precompiled headers never worked well due to a variety of limitations.

want to elaborate? i use MSVC's implementation and never encounter any problems with it. then again, i also don't work on large projects, so i would like some insight.

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