How to reduce compilation times with Boost Asio

Question

Boost.Asio is great library but it has one huge drawback -- extreamly slow compilation times. A simple implementation (really simple) of HTTP protocol (about 1k lines of cod

Answer 1

We are using boost thread, asio and a few other libs, including Qt. Using precompiled headers carefully made a 10:1 improvement in build time. We referred to the following for guidance:

http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/precompiledheaders.html

There are ways to do precomiled headers so that they don't creep into every file and Windowsify your code.