[webkit-dev] [Conditional=] vs. #if in IDL files

Darin Adler darin at apple.com
Mon Mar 9 12:52:28 PDT 2015


> On Mar 9, 2015, at 5:39 AM, Steven Coul (scoul) <scoul at cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> Would [Conditional] use through out also not allow us to perform the IDL compile without running the c preprocessor on each file?

Possibly.

> Can [Conditional] not be fixed to support multiple flags?

It does support multiple flags.

> The compiling of IDL is a significant portion of the total build time, and ccache distcc et al cannot help us there.


Worth doing the math to figure out how much of the time is the C preprocessor.

— Darin


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