This metric measures the amount of time (in milliseconds) spent compiling a C/C++ file, including time spent processing all files included by the pre-processor.

Files that take too long to build usually have too many includes.

Files that take a long time to build should be checked to see if they are including only the necessary files in order to reduce build time.

  • MSDN Library: #include directive (C/C++)
  • Include operation
  • C++ Compilation Speed