Re: [boost] [fusion] matrix?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-06 19:19:33

"Andy Little" <andy_at_[hidden]> writes:

> So all in all I reckon Boost.Fusion is quite cool :-). Of course it is probably
> not as good performance wise, 

I don't know why you say "of course."  Just as STL iteration can be
faster than a hand-coded loop, in MPL we did several things that can
make it quite a bit faster to use the high-level abstractions than to
do the naive hand-coded version.  The same thing could be true of Fusion.

> but I am not too concerned about performance and

A welcome change ;-)

> it is more interesting to do it this way..

And more maintainable.  And more understandable.  And... :)

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