[Python-Dev] Precompiled headers (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 02:42:29 +0200

On woensdag, oktober 23, 2002, at 12:54 , Martin v. Loewis wrote:

I find the compile times of the Python tree on my Pentium 930MHz system to be accceptable, so I'd personally rather avoid a feature with the potential of producing incorrect binaries.

This last sentence sounds like you know something that I don't, could you explain? Precompiled headers keep track of the preprocessor symbols they depend on, and their value at precompile time, so I've always thought that this (together with correct Makefile dependencies) would be safe...