Does it hurt to have to many Directory?

[II15X]

I realize at first this sounds confusing, and if you get it, it sounds stupid. But I was wondering if you could use it like a simple pre-layout.

Here is what I am trying to say...

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string.h> 

even if all I have is:
cout << "jeifjeifg\n";

Does it hurt to have the extra directories?

[g0dwyn]

Generally speaking, it's not a great idea. Any code you #include is going to have to be compiled, whether or not you used it. So you'd be taking more time and space to build things that you wouldn't be using.

[Bazzy]

That should only increase the program size but on runtime it shouldn't be much bad, if you think that your program will have a future development using those headers, there is nothing wrong in including them. Of course if you include them just because you like typing, is not that useful...

[helios]

Note that it only hurts compile time. Run time is unaffected by inclusions. Not even code size is affected by inclusions. In most cases. MinGW is an exception: including a certain part of the standard library increases code size tenfold.

[II15X]

Ok, it doesn't bother me due to the fact I will build on from there, I just simply showed if it as a template file... But thanks guys

[g0dwyn]

Whoops. I did mean compile time. One of these days I'll learn to specify my times...