Re: [boost] [phoenix] compile-time performance

Subject: Re: [boost] [phoenix] compile-time performance
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-12 23:38:44

On 9/12/2011 4:45 PM, Thomas Heller wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Eric Niebler <eric_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 9/12/2011 4:06 AM, Thomas Heller wrote:
>>> FWIW, there are some unit tests that outperform the compile times of
>>> Phoenix2 (with gcc), the current bad hit on compile times seem to
>>> only occur with let, lambda and switch/case expressions.
>>
>> This /suggests/ to me that the core of Phx3 is sound, but that the
>> implementation of let, lambda, and switch are heavy. But I'm not blaming
>> Thomas. I'm just suggesting a logical place to begin an
>> investigation.
> 
> FWIW, i experimented with different implementations, I even almost
> identically (as far as i could) copied the phx2 implementation.
> For the implementation right now I have several suspects. First of
> all, i think the code of the mentioned parts is very ugly (both of V2
> and V3). Second of all, there some pretty severe type transformations
> going on, repeated calls to fusion::make_map etc. I am absolutely sure
> that there is quite some space for improvement.

<looks on trunk>

fusion::make_map doesn't appear in the phoenix code anywhere. I see
fusion::map appears in scope/detail/make_locals.hpp, but that header
doesn't seem to get included from anywhere except itself, AFAICT. So,
uh, what's up with that?

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