Re: [boost] New implementation of remove_xxx for vintage compilers

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-31 17:50:43

Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> Eric Niebler writes:
> 
>>Now that typeof has been checked into the CVS tree, what are the chances 
>>that we can get implementations of remove_pointer, remove_bounds, 
>>remove_reference, etc. for VC6 and VC7? See the attached message for a 
>>link to a typeof-based implementation.
>>
>>I would like to this this happen. It would fix problems in Boost.Range 
>>and Boost.Foreach for those compilers.
> 
> 
> I'd like to see a comparison of compilation times between the old and
> the new implementation and the latter being stress tested on
> Boost.Python tests before it officially replaces the current
> code.
> 

I'm not sure what you mean. The "current code" for remove_pointer, et 
al. for VC6 and VC7 is broken -- it does nothing. You want to see a 
performance comparison between code that doesn't work and code that 
does. Why?

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Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
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