, sip generates a single large source file
for each module (2 files for kdeui and kio because of their size) instead of many small modules (basically one
file per class otherwise.
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This speeds up compilation significantly - up to 80% faster with older gcc versions, less with newer versions.
It can also cause gcc to freeze, and consumes a large amount of memory during compilation.
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PyKDE4's configure.py detects gcc versions which are p