Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries
From: Joel Falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-26 05:36:34

Lubomir Bourdev wrote:
> However, we haven't been methodically placing a check for every single
> concept in every single place. That would make GIL a lot bigger. It also
> would put a significant toll on compile time.

Well msot of the time we don't use Concepts per se, we just have a few 
mea-functions checking for what we need to check (we have an army of 
has_method_xxx<Sig> meta-function for ex.). A simple MPL_ASSERT is then 
needed, and is far less heavy in term of compile.