Re: [boost] Accelerating algorithms with SIMD - Segmented iterators and alternatives

Subject: Re: [boost] Accelerating algorithms with SIMD - Segmented iterators and alternatives
From: joel falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-12 12:46:46

On 12/10/10 18:40, Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:
> Having done expression templates and meta programming (including expression templates for vector primitives) I can honestly say that I wouldn't want to implement an optimizing compiler as a template meta-program.  It would be a very tedious and painful task with the end result being something that is thoroughly impractical due to long compile times and the impossibility of maintaining it.
>    

Really ? try perusing proto to its fullest, it's not that hard to 
maintain as soon as oyu have a neat generic package around
and use it to geenrate a proper intermediate representation of your code 
fragment.

> It could not compete with the quality and speed of compilers programmed in C.
>    
Compile time is an expendable ressources, runtime is not.