Re: [boost] [Boost Review] Property Tree Library

From: Pavel Vozenilek (pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-20 13:36:48

"Marcin Kalicinski" wrote:

>> 3. Even if you insist on alternative lookup. Why not just use single 
>> typedef with multi_index instead of all the implementation.
>
> Could you elaborate more on that? I considered use of multi_index to 
> implement indexing for properties, but it only affected the implementation 
> part of library, not interface, and because I already had a working, 
> exception safe solution, I didn't see the reason to dump it and add 
> another dependency on another library.
>

Multi-index has disadvantages:
* high compilation time
  (people do change configuration structures very often)
* doesn't compile on Borland
* if it will be possible to provoke
  compile time error inside mu;ti-index
  by wrong use of ptree no one wil understand
  the result message

IMO the fast lookup should be optional feature.

/Pavel