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Fast compilation was one of the main reasons Golang was invented.

The gradual accumulation of #include clauses in C programs scales very badly. A large distributed compilation system was created in Google to handle the slow compilation. One reason is you never know if some #include is actually needed.

In Golang unused dependencies are a compile-time error. The generated object file includes type information for all related import dependencies in binary format. This speeds up the compilation significantly.