[MESOS-7226] Introduce precompiled headers (on Windows)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: cmake
• Labels: mesosphere microsoft
• Epic Link: Improve build time
• Sprint: Mesosphere Sprint 53
• Story Points: 5
• Assignee: Jeff Coffler
• Reporter: Joseph Wu
• Shepherd: Joseph Wu
• Created: 09/Mar/17 23:08
• Updated: 29/Apr/19 09:27
• Resolved: 29/Mar/17 20:43

Description

Precompiled headers (PCHs) exist on both Windows and Linux. For Linux, you can refer to https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Precompiled-Headers.html. Straight from the GNU CC documentation: "The time the compiler takes to process these header files over and over again can account for nearly all of the time required to build the project."

PCHs are only being proposed for the CMake system. In theory, we can introduce this change with only a few, non-intrusive code changes. The feature will primarily be a CMake change.

See: https://github.com/sakra/cotire

Issue Links

• is related to: MESOS-7496 The /debug:fastlink linker option is not being respected