Re: [boost] Identification library preliminary version

From: joel falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-17 12:53:06

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> Why at runtime? Mangling/Unmangling a
compile-time string at compile-time is perfectly
> doable
Well, I had a first compile-time version but its compilation time was
really long (read over a couple of second per type_of call) and made it
unusbale as a debugging purpose.

>  and would be fairly
useful, since it would allow constant-time 
> visitation over
std::type_info&.
I'm afraid I don't fully understand what you're
implying. Would you mind elaborate on this point ?