Re: [boost] [msm] scalability

Subject: Re: [boost] [msm] scalability
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-12 15:28:11

At Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:18:16 -0500,
Jeff Flinn wrote:
> 
> For 41 transitions and 5 states, I was seeing about 30s on XCode with 
> g++4.2.x.
> 
> Unfortunately the same code takes over 2.5 minutes on VC8. In fact so 
> many compute resources were used that Incredibuild, our distributed 
> build tool, was blocked from distributing any other compilation units 
> for about 2 minutes. This forced me to revert to the TMP book's STT 
> implementation which compiled in less than 30 seconds on both platforms, 
> and allows Incredibuild to do it's job.
> 
> Aah! I should mention these times are for debug builds, which is a much 
> more important measurement in an iterative/agile development 
> environment. It's not that big of a deal if the nightly release build 
> takes a few minutes longer. By the way I'm on XP with 4GB ram using the 
> /3GB switch.

It might be interesting to contemplate a "fast-compile mode" that
builds the same logical state machine using the same input syntax but
trades away a little run time for compile time.

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