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

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-31 18:51:34

Eric Niebler writes:
> Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
>> 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. 

It does, see
http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boost_typetraits/category.html#transform.broken_compiler_workarounds_.

> You want to see a 
> performance comparison between code that doesn't work and code that 
> does. Why?

Because we have code that depends on Type Traits working reliably on
MSVC 6.5 -- and taking a reasonable amount of time to compile.

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering