Re: [boost] Compile Time Overview (was: PREPROCESSOR library is now in CVS)

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-08 16:06:46

At 08:41 PM 12/2/2001, David Abrahams wrote:

 >Me, too. We could also formalize my template instantiation speed test and
 >try it with more compilers:
 >
 >http://users.rcn.com/abrahams/instantiation_speed/index.html

I'd like to see both Jens' compile time results and your instantiation 
speed test more widely available.

Issues to be resolved:

*  Are we going to change over to using Boost.Jam to run the regression 
tests?  I'd like to see that happen; it is taking too long already to run 
the tests, and that can only get much worse.  No point in getting new 
tables set up under regression.cpp only to change to Boost.Jam right away.

*  The compile timings should somehow report failed compiles differently 
from successful compiles.  We don't want fast failure to look better than 
slow success:-)

*  Where do these timings live?  CVS (like the current tables) or 
separately (like the current regression logs).

*  Where do we link to these new tables?  Added columns in the 
http://www.boost.org/status/compiler_status.html table seem like the 
obvious place.

--Beman