From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:32:14 BST
Subject: Re: Many small files versus big clusters

  A.Appleyard wrote:
> If (say) all the files LIBSRC\C\IO\*.C are chained into one big file
> LIBSRC\C\IO.C, and after each function (plus its associated outermost-level
> declarations) you insert a new preprocessor command `#libunit' ...

  dgardner AT mcsilo DOT ilo DOT dec DOT com (Damien Gardner) wrote:-
> If (say) all the files LIBSRC\C\IO\*.C are chained into one big file and I
> edit one statement in that file and then go to rebuild the library, the
> entire body of code has to be recompiled and added to the library ...

  With modern superfast PC's, does the time so saved/wasted matter as much as
as it did in the old days?