Re: [Boost-docs] Quickbook compilation times?

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-16 05:28:15

John Maddock wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>> I'm wondering about the appropriateness of using Spirit for the
>> QuickBook parser.  Even on a fast machine, the QuickBook interpreter
>> takes a *long* time to compile (with GCC 4.0.3, even in release mode).
>>
>> That's got to make it hard to work on QuickBook.  As cool as Spirit
>> is, I know the same job could be done with Python code with no
>> appreciable parsing slowdown, and effectively zero compilation time.
> 
> I agree this is an issue: personally I build quickbook in release mode (make 
> a *big* difference when parsing largish projects), and put it in my path, 
> then add a "using quickbook quickbook ;" to my user-config.jam.  You don't 
> want to be rebuilding it too frequently :-)

I don't see any reason why QuickBook should be built frequently.
That's also what I do, unless I need to do some development on it.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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