[boost] Re: Optimization of compilation time and consumed memory

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-17 20:46:03

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> My opinion is that unlike runtime collections, type collections tend not
to
> grow to huge lengths. Often, types are ultimately created by people, so
it's
> not like you have tons of them.

Some of the state machines we generate using the compile-time FSM generator
have transition tables with ~50 elements. That's large enough to start
appreciate compilation speed and any possibility to improve it.

Aleksey