Re: [boost] I'd like to write a static lambda library.

From: Alexander Nasonov (alnsn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-28 22:01:36

Daniel Walker wrote:
> I took a brief look at this. As far as I could tell Atry's library is
> stateless. So, it can only support a subset of the expressions that
> Boost.Lambda supports... namely those without state; i.e. all the
> parameters need to be unbound. So, it can do
> 
> _1 << _2 << _3
> 
> ... but not ...
> 
> cout << _1 << endl
> 
> I'm not sure that this wins you a time savings over Boost.Lambda,

If stateful lambda object isn't small enough to fit into boost::function
buffer, it could save you one dynamic memory allocation for each object.

> but I believe it could win you a space saving if the static function can
> be inlined.
Or quite the opposite. Though, I hope people don't write big scary
lambdas expressions.

> I wonder how this relates to the anticipated rewrite of lambda using Phoenix.
me either.

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