Re: [boost] [MPL] Potential use for multiple sequence types

From: Terje Slettebø (tslettebo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-09 15:33:26

A couple of postings put together:

>From: "Paul Mensonides" <pmenso57_at_[hidden]>

> > From: "Emily Winch" <emily_at_[hidden]>
> >
> > If Boost.Tuple was PP'ified, nobody would need to do that.
>
> Emily, do you mean generating 10,000 specializations?  The PP library
can't go
> that high, and, even if it could, it would take _literally_ *forever*.  It
would
> also easily pass the maximum macro depth of every preprocessor in
existance. :(
>
> However, the PP library can generate up to (currently) 100 specializations
and
> do it quickly.
>
> Either way, 10,000 element containers is going *way* beyond real world
> practicality.  Compilers are ill-suited for that scale of computation.  An
> external tool would be far better and more practical.

Not necessarily.

>From another posting:

> > What's wrong with picking some portion of the MPL as your subset?
>
> Nothing in particular.  Remember, I did vote *for* the library. :) It is
just my
> opinion that the MPL is more of a library built on top of core facilities
rather
> than a library of core facilities.  That's all.

What kind of subset of core facilities would you like, then?

Regards,

Terje