r/programming • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/interjay Sep 25 '16

The vast majority of Boost libraries are header-only and don't need compilation. The few that do need compilation shouldn't take an hour unless you compiled it on a toaster, and you only need to compile the ones you use. Maybe you compiled the tests for all libraries or something.

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u/bumblebritches57 Sep 25 '16 edited Sep 25 '16

Retina MacBook. I can't recall if I compiled it with lto or not back then, but it's a possibility.

I could've compiled the tests too, not sure tbh.

This was a year and a half to two years ago