Re: [Boost-users] [phoenix] V2, V3 and the amount of memory needed by the compiler to just include them

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [phoenix] V2, V3 and the amount of memory needed by the compiler to just include them
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-28 22:45:13

On 3/1/2011 8:07 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Eric Niebler <eric_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Forgive me, but that's a crap job that would be wasted on a GSoC
>> project. :-D
> 
> I think you're projecting a bit, Eric.  If I were a GSoC volunteer,
> making dramatic speedups in important Boost libraries by refactoring
> them would be very attractive to me.  Not everybody feels ready to
> design a whole new library.

Whoops, I've mouthed off again. Sorry about that. I didn't mean to imply
that it isn't a worthy goal, just that it requires little creativity.
But I'll allow that my notion of what constitutes a worthwhile GSoC
project may be biased.

But if a student were to also use rvalue refs and variadic templates in
places to eliminate unnecessary overloads, that would require something
beyond the abilities of a trained monkey. (Oops, I did it again!)

-- 
Eric Niebler
BoostPro Computing
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