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Well if compilation time is an issue, you chose the worst possible language to use. But if you must use C++, you should use the mechanisms that best communicate intent.
It’s this kind of attitude that perpetuates bad compilation time.

Templates have to get parsed and instantiated over and over again. Then you need link time optimization to deduplicate all the redundant copies of the same code.

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