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		Mikhail_Edoshin 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A header-only C vector database library Why to call it a header? Could be just a source file. Including sources is uncommon, but why not? Solid "amalgamation" builds are a thing too.

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Y_Y 2 days ago [–]

In the early days of CUDA it was pretty common to just #include all your sources, since linking was such a nightmare.

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