Douglas Huff [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-07-10 🗒️ Summary of this message: Bitcoin's long ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-07-10
🗒️ Summary of this message: Bitcoin's long build times are due to the use of boost, lack of module isolation, and implementations in header files, making adding new code difficult.
📝 Original message:On Jul 10, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Michael Offel wrote:

> 4. long build times
>
> It takes longer to build Bitcoin than building some of the million lines of code projects I'm working on. The reasons I did see so far is the use of boost, lack of module isolation and implementations in header files.

I've actually offered (on irc) to fix the latter a few times and been told that a pull removing implementations from the headers would not be merged so have not wasted the effort. (Because it's a rather large one.) Not only does this cause long build times it makes adding new code in the logically "right" places nearly impossible due to the build deps.

I agree with pretty much the entirety of your post and think all of it needs to be discussed further and addressed.

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Douglas Huff


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