Re: [boost] Clang: Open-source C/C++ front end under development

From: Larry Evans (cppljevans_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-01 14:54:36

On 09/01/07 13:30, David A. Greene wrote:
> On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:12, Larry Evans wrote:
> 
>> It maybe too late now, but I'd think boost's wave might have
>> saved them some time in writing the preprocessor.
> 
> Agreed.  I've been involved with llvm for about six months now and there's a 
> general fear of using anything from Boost, or templates in general.  I'm not 
> meaning to slam the llvm developers.  What they've done is really quite good.  
> But they have certain constraints (embedded, low memory, etc.) that makes them 
> hesitant to use more advanced C++ techniques.

My initial reponse to this is "aren't they optimizing first, then 
correcting?"  IOW, why not use templates to ease getting a correct
compiler, and *then* worry about satisfying the constraints?  Of course,
after thinking a bit, I'd guess that's probably oversimplifying.