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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (18 children)

Why are you putting the implementation in the .h file? You're supposed to declare in the header and implement in the .cpp files. The meme is reversed

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (8 children)

The reason is that header files are pretty much copy/pasted into your c files when you include them. so the code in them keeps getting recompiled for every c file, which drastically increases overall build times. If you only declare in the header and have one c file implementing the functions you compile them only once.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

drastically increases overall build times

oh wow. from 0ms all the way up to 0ms. That's almost 1000 times faster wow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

truly spoken like someone who has never worked on a large C/C++ project

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
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