The #include concept, present in numerous mainstream languages like C, C++, Objective C, has unexpectedly bad effects on build times. Many current large systems using the #include technique suffer from unacceptable long build procedure. Long builds waste many valuable manhours or even man months, elongate development and as a result make keeping deadlines harder. Using a different approach in a large system is proven to result in even 10 times faster builds. This paper compares various widely used freeware software packages and shows both the overhead the #includes cause and the gain achieved by applying the mentioned approach.
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