Re: [Boost-users] large variant performance compared (50 elements)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] large variant performance compared (50 elements)
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-09 11:29:25

AMDG

On 1/9/2011 6:03 AM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> Writing a variant replacement is actually quite easy, and doing so 
> would greatly reduce your compile times.
> Variant is old, full of quirks, and doesn't scale well. Why it even 
> requires its MPL input sequence to be Front Extensible (which it 
> doesn't even state in its documentation) is beyond me. This is a very 
> annoying limitation that makes it impractical to use with a large 
> amount of types, since compatibility with joint_view would be very 
> nice in that situation.

So, why not fix Boost.Variant instead of having
everyone roll his own?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe