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		veltas on Jan 2, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ray Tracing in One Weekend This is a normal practice for applications, and allows you to pre-compile that header for performance. I don't think it's a bad enough practice to warrant complaining, but it's good for people to know the advantages or disadvantages.

kookamamie on Jan 2, 2025 | [–]

See this: https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines...

Technically, headers are just copy-paste, obviously. However, there's value to keeping them as standalone as possible.

on_the_train on Jan 2, 2025 | [–]

Headers should still be self contained, although precompiled headers are used. Those things are mostly orthogonal

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