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Bruce Dawson's Chromium build time investigation is very enlightening:

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2020/03/30/big-project-bui...

The main takeaway:

> That is, the main source files represent just 0.32% of the lines of code being processed.

Chromium itself has about 12 million lines of code, but the compiler needs to process 3.6 billion lines of code because it needs to parse the same headers over and over again.




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