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Decrease compile time in sublime text.
By Dontony, history, 4 years ago, In English

Recently my simple code in sublime text is taking up a lot of time to compile and run. Like for simple taking input an array and then printing it, sublime is taking about 7-8 secs. It doesn't always happen but when it happens during a short contest it's frustating. Can anyone suggest me ways to decrease the compile time? Thanks for noticing this blog.

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4 years ago, # |
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Some steps that you can take:

  1. Uninstall your antivirus, because every time your cpp file is executed, the antivirus checks it and this is the reason it sometimes takes 7-8 s.

  2. precompile headers in the sublime text if not done.

In my case, the problem was with antivirus.

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    4 years ago, # ^ |
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    Thanks, uninstalling the antivirus worked.

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      I think it would be better if you can put .cpp file in exclusion from scanning, rather than uninstalling antivirus.

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        BISMILLAHIR-RAHMANIR-RAHIM

        while executing a .cpp file, it opens .exe file to execute the code, so i think excluding .cpp won't help, maybe excluding the folder where you save your code will help?

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    4 years ago, # ^ |
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    Yes, most of the time Antivirus is problem.

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Use WSL rather than CMD to compile.

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    Hi, can you please tell me how can we pre-compile headers in WSL?

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      You may not need that, it compiles pretty fast, but if you still intend to do it, just follow any linux instructions for doing it, its mostly same in WSL.

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    Can you give some numbers on how much faster WSL is (compared to CMD) on your local environment?

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      4 years ago, # ^ |
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      It varies from 0.7 to 1.1 seconds on my system without precompiled headers.

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