Thread: How can g++ recognize *.hpp header files?

Originally Posted by Elysia

Using PCH for Windows.h saves lots of time when you have a lot of source files that needs Windows.h. That's the beauty of the them.

Sure.

But for example the "Boost" functions would be very unlikely to (commonly) use Windows.h.

It is more likely that Boost consists (as CornedBee suggests) of lots of template "meta-programming" along with a large number of small C++ source files that are compiled.

For the best benefit of precompiled headers, all source files should include one "most headerfiles included in one header" file, e.g. all.h - that way, there's one all.h.pch that is being re-used many times. This is of course the opposite of isolating and reducing the set of includes to a minimum.

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Mats

Precompiled headers never hurts (no performance impact or so), so you can go ahead and use it if you want.

You can ask questions about GIL on the boost-user mailing list.

Originally Posted by jutirain

BTW, I can't find active forum for boost::gil, anybody using it here?

You shouldn't find much discussion around GIL outside that of implementation details. Not until it becomes a part of boost.