Re: [boost] Phoenix3 Status update.

Subject: Re: [boost] Phoenix3 Status update.
From: Thomas Heller (thom.heller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-27 08:19:32

Eric Niebler wrote:

> On 12/26/2010 11:53 PM, Joel de Guzman wrote:
>> On 12/24/2010 5:48 PM, Thomas Heller wrote:
>>>> BTW, what about compile time? Have you had any success with the
>>>> preprocessor idea? To be honest, my biggest concern is the compile
>>>> time of V3 phoenix over V2. Compile time is already an issue with
>>>> Spirit2. Now we'll be adding more on top of it.
>>>
>>> Compile time without preprocessing is better than with phoenix2.
>> 
>> Really? Do you have some numbers? I don't see how preprocessed
>> phoenix3 can be faster than preprocessed phoenix2.
> 
> I took this to mean that preprocessed phx3 compiled faster that
> (un-preprocessed) phx2. That means that if fusion, proto and phx3 all
> used the mpl trick of shipping pre-preprocessed headers, the compile
> time problems would go away.
> 
> Thomas, is that what you meant?

Nope, I really meant preprocessed phoenix3 is faster to compile than 
preprocessed phoenix2 (or at least as fast as phoenix3) last time i checked. 
This was before the refactoring though. But the refactoring improved compile 
times ;)

I will report real numbers once I am back home on my workstation.