Not quite the same issue, but this reminds me of my very first job, back in 2001, where we used a homebrew C++ framework that separated lots of concerns, and then used a single massive .h file with 10,000 const uints to tie everything together.
Compiling took over 2 hours. The header was generated automatically, but after I added a macro that replaced those const uints with #defines, compile time dropped to 30 minutes, which was quickly voted the biggest productivity enhancement in that project.
More relevant to the topic, in javascript programming I recently switched to using const instead of let wherever possible. Most variables don't actually vary, so let's make that explicit. That can prevent some unexpected surprises (though not all, as objects and arrays in constants are not immutable).
Compiling took over 2 hours. The header was generated automatically, but after I added a macro that replaced those const uints with #defines, compile time dropped to 30 minutes, which was quickly voted the biggest productivity enhancement in that project.
More relevant to the topic, in javascript programming I recently switched to using const instead of let wherever possible. Most variables don't actually vary, so let's make that explicit. That can prevent some unexpected surprises (though not all, as objects and arrays in constants are not immutable).