[webkit-dev] WebCore Build Times

[Dumitru Daniliuc]

would it be worth replacing #include <wtf/*Ptr.h> with #include
<wtf/Forward.h> in all header files?


On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:

> Has anyone spent any time trying to reduce the number of includes in
> WebCore?  I know we have:
>
> https://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebKitTools/Scripts/find-extra-includes
>
> But I feel like we still have way too many unnecessary includes.  I
> failed to find any tools for reducing build times or includes with my
> brief Google searching.  But perhaps others have looked into this
> problem for WebKit or other projects?
>
> On my Intel Core 2 Duo MBP a full build takes over 1 hour.  5 years
> ago, on my g4 laptop a full build took around 40m.  :(  We seem to be
> slowly moving in the wrong direction.
>
> -eric
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