Re: [boost] [signals] Performance

From: Dan Eloff (dan.eloff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-17 18:12:16

I would go ahead an use boost::signals, and if later you profile your
code and find they produce a signifigant performance penalty, replace
them. They may not be that fast, but if you're doing something a
100,000 times slower in your code, you really won't notice the 0.001%
overhead they add. As always premature optimization is a waste of
time, effort, and money. Only ever optimize if a) you've profiled and
identified the code as a bottleneck or b) you're concerned it will be
a bottleneck AND the alternative is similarily easy to implement and
use, then you could get away with using your alternative from the
start.

-Dan

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:17:04 -0400, Jody Hagins
<jody-boost-011304_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> Are there any docs which describe the performance of the signal/slot
> library?  I was about to embark on a performance study because I want to
> use it in a very high performance critical code path, but I thought I'd
> ask if anyone else may have already done some work in this area.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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