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

Subject: Re: [boost] Interesting article on stack-based TMP
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-27 20:47:03

on Thu Oct 25 2012, Larry Evans <cppljevans-AT-suddenlink.net> wrote:

> On 10/25/12 12:24, Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> [snip]
>> I guess some of my confusion comes from reading
>> 
>> http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2008_02/article2.pdf
>> 
>> some time ago. I think this article is why I thought they
>> were a bonus for compilation time.
>
> In particular, page 33, in the last sentence before section 3, says:
>
>   Section 4 demonstrates how variadic templates drastically reduce
>   compilation times

I believe that they do/can.  However, getting the most performance out
of variadic templates involves avoiding O(N) recursive template
instantiations, which can be maddeningly difficult to achieve for some
problems.

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