Proto for Boost mailing list page: Re: [proto] Thoughts on traversing proto expressions and reusing grammar

Subject: Re: [proto] Thoughts on traversing proto expressions and reusing grammar
From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-18 09:10:01

> >> Let me add here, that i am planning on writing a boost.wave driver
> >> which allows to preprocess headers (as MPL already does), expanding
> >> BOOST_PP iteration constructs until a certain N. I believe this kind
> >> of preprocessing will bring down compile times of proto, fusion and
> >> phoenix. (There must be a reason why MPL does it, right?)
> >
> > Very cool!
> 
> This will help immensely! Nice idea.
> 
> (Still catching up with the thread. It's hard to compress all that's been
> discussed so far. I know.. I know... I should've done this earlier.
> Anyway, I like the recent resolutions you and Eric are reaching so far.)

I have some ideas how you could use Wave for the preprocessing. Holler if
you need some info.

Regards Hartmut
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