Does IWYU lower the overall build size?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Hey guys, i’m thinking about migrating to 4.18 (i’m right now on 4.15, haven’t migrated due to not needing it)… as we’re creting a 2d game, migration hasn’t been a priority… but IWYU (which i know is available on other engine versions) looks like a good enough reason to make the change. My question is what are the advantages of IWYU versus monolitic includes?

Thanks!

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Much lower compile times, especially for single file changes. There should be no difference to the size of the build though.

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Thanks a lot, that’s enough of a change to update my project though… would love to see lower build sizes eventually though