Re: [boost] Interest in updated expression template library?

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in updated expression template library?
From: Zach Laine (whatwasthataddress_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-01-11 09:51:50

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Mathias Gaunard <
mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 10 January 2017 at 20:07, Zach Laine <whatwasthataddress_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > I agree with all of these complaints.  This is in fact why I wrote Yap.
> > The compile times are very good, even for an obnoxious number of
> terminals
> > (thousands), and there is no memory allocated at all -- or did you mean
> > compiler memory usage?  I haven't looked at that.
> >
>
> Compiler memory usage of course.
> When a TU takes 4GB to compile or more, it leads to lots of problems, even
> if RAM is cheap and you could put hundreds of gigabytes in your build
> server.

Right.  I would be very surprised to see that kind of thing when types are
computed by saying "auto" instead of some tortuous metafunction.

Zach