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Subject: Re: [boost] Phoenix3 Status update.
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-27 00:14:01


On 12/26/2010 11:53 PM, Joel de Guzman wrote:
> On 12/24/2010 5:48 PM, Thomas Heller wrote:
>>> BTW, what about compile time? Have you had any success with the
>>> preprocessor idea? To be honest, my biggest concern is the compile
>>> time of V3 phoenix over V2. Compile time is already an issue with
>>> Spirit2. Now we'll be adding more on top of it.
>>
>> Compile time without preprocessing is better than with phoenix2.
>
> Really? Do you have some numbers? I don't see how preprocessed
> phoenix3 can be faster than preprocessed phoenix2.

I took this to mean that preprocessed phx3 compiled faster that
(un-preprocessed) phx2. That means that if fusion, proto and phx3 all
used the mpl trick of shipping pre-preprocessed headers, the compile
time problems would go away.

Thomas, is that what you meant?

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