* Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
