* Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] Now I finally got around to writing some scripts for that, so here's a
> visualization of (the evolution of) the problem:
>
> https://wildmoose.dk/header-bloat/
Nice! In particular your final conclusion is impressive and scary:
> So the typical (median) translation unit ends up including over 450 headers
> files, making the whole TU about 200 times bigger than the .c file itself,
> while
> more than 25% of the translation units get bloated to over 400 times the size
> of
> the .c file.
Even with a lot of this being eliminated at fairly early compiling stages
that's a
*huge* chunk of code that needs to be parsed again and again and again and
again
...
> I hope to find some time soonish to polish the old programs and see if they
> actually still work.
That would be lovely!
Thanks,
Ingo
