Re: [boost] Formal Review Request: TypeErasure

Subject: Re: [boost] Formal Review Request: TypeErasure
From: Larry Evans (cppljevans_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-16 10:30:54

On 06/15/12 21:19, Daniel Larimer wrote:

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 >
 > Clearly type erasure has value or we wouldn't be using
 > boost::function, boost::any, void*, or any number of other
 > techniques to erase types.   It is also particularly useful for
 > migrating from heavily templated code to non-templated
 > implementations.
 >
Spirit programs take a long time to compile because they are
heavily templated:

   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.parsers.spirit.devel/3746
   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.parsers.spirit.general/23421

could type_erasure be used to speed up the compile time (with,
I assume, some slow down in run-time)?
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