Re: [boost] Interesting article on stack-based TMP

Subject: Re: [boost] Interesting article on stack-based TMP
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-23 10:27:25

On 23-10-2012 15:05, Larry Evans wrote:
> On 10/22/12 07:26, Giovanni Piero Deretta wrote:
> [snip]
>> Now, to make this thread on-topic: is anybody working on a C++11
>> rewrite of Boost.MPL?
>>
> Anyone attempting such a rewrite and planning to use the
> variadic template features might want to start from:
>
> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/variadic_templates/boost/mpl/
>
> However, using variadic templates may cause a slowdown in the
> compile times.  IIRC, a variadic template version of proto was
> developed but was abandoned in favor of using:
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/libs/preprocessor/doc/index.html
>
> because of large compile times.

Hm.

This is really sad if variadic templates can't be used for the thing 
they were created for. Is this an inherent problem for large-scale use 
of variadic templates?

-Thorsten