incremental linking speed up link time very much

[Ralf Habacker]

On Wednesday 05 January 2005 19:44, Simon Rutishauser wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:04:40PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > found some time to fix the broken incremental linking suspport for msvc
> > in cvs. Now the turnaround time for changing qt sources, compile and link
> > are very much reduced.
> > For example while searching the assistant default font problem, changing
> > qfont_win.cpp, compiling and linking the qt dll requires less than 5
> > seconds.
> >
> > Happy hacking.
> > Ralf
>
> That sounds really great. Should this work with msvc 6 or are you
> referring to the newer ones?
I've tried this with msvc 7 aka msvc net. As far as I know should this work 
with msvc 6 too. 

> >10 min vs 5 seconds is quite a lot :-)

5 seconds seems to be the best case when changing only code in a method. The 
really needed time depends on the amount of changes, but I cannot say 
how. :-)

Ralf