Re: [Boost-users] [preprocessor] concatenating values tocreatetypedefpermutations

From: Chris Weed (chrisweed_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-15 00:10:53

Hi,
This is becoming a little more clear what is going on. This is pretty cool.

>
> A word of warning, however.  What is being produced here is a combinatorial
> explosion and the algorithm is exponential.  Therefore, if your sequences of
> types get longer and there are more of them, eventually the performance of the
> preprocessor will be so slow as to make this method of generation unusable.
>

The combinatorial explosion was the reason why I need this code
generation, but you are right it can be pretty slow.

Thanks again,
Chris