Re: [boost] [rfc] I/O Library Design

From: Andrey Semashev (andysem_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-20 16:10:35

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
> 
>> I'm maybe too ignorant on this issue (forgive me if I'm 
>> shooting my foot) but compile time generation creates a lot of new types 
>> that lead also to more typeinfo and other stuff to be linked to the program.
> 
> AFAIK, creating new types doesn't add any data to the executable (except 
> debugging info eventually) unless the type has static members (const 
> integral ones don't count) or is polymorphic.

Type info is always emitted for a type, if not disabled completely or 
optimized away by compiler.