Re: [boost] Support for Cell processor

Subject: Re: [boost] Support for Cell processor
From: Joel Falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-14 02:40:34

Stefan Seefeld a écrit :
 > While I very much agree with the goal of this proposal, I also believe
 > that boost is, for the most part, unsuitable for serious SPU code. I
 > have been writing Cell algorithms (mixed PPU and SPU) for the last
 > year and a half, and code-size was a serious issue. While we have
 > been using C++ on the SPU side, too, we were extremely careful
 > not only not to use the standard library, but also about whether
 > to use templates, and template instances.

Well I do the same and I never felt oppressed by the overhead of 
template instanciation. I use MPL, Proto and function_traits all day 
long in various DSEL for the Cell and never encountered such problems.

Mathias Gaunard a écrit :
> I would say it's linking against the standard library that is a problem 
> or not. Ideally, a good compiler should also be able to remove unused 
> symbols at link-time, making that a non-issue.

Yes sorry of course. Seems in fact that it's linking with iostream
that cause most of the problems. Concerning the quality of the compiler, 
well ... I won't anything :s