FAQ
Separate Compilation in C++
Building projects in C++ is easy and fast… until it’s not. C++ people have figured out different tricks over the years to speed up compilation time, and today we mainly talked about a popular method called Separate Compilation. Make separate header and implementation files for your classes, keep the header files small, and use a Makefile (or other build system) to build the project. In that way, you can minimize the amount of wasted time spent recompiling code that doesn’t need to be recompiled.
