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		jhasse 45 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What to do with C++ modules? I have a cpp file that takes 10 seconds to compile. I change one line. How does ccache help me in this case?

wakawaka28 45 days ago [–]

When you do a clean build, it will pull that output from the cache if it has been compiled before and has not changed since. It does not technically speed up compilation of files. It bypasses compilation when it can.

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