Proto for Boost mailing list page: Re: [proto] [phoenix][msm] proto limits increased to 10, phoenix broken on trunk

Subject: Re: [proto] [phoenix][msm] proto limits increased to 10, phoenix broken on trunk
From: Christophe Henry (christophe.j.henry_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-09 15:10:12

2011/5/9 Eric Niebler <eric_at_[hidden]>:
> On 5/8/2011 9:54 PM, Thomas Heller wrote:
>> Phoenix is up and running now again and should play nice with other libs!
>
> Proto is now fully preprocessed on trunk, and I've just merged it all to
> release. That means that the corresponding changes to Phoenix and MSM
> also should be merged now also.
>
> Christophe, there's a good chance that you won't see the promised
> compile-time improvements from this. Compile times for xpressive didn't
> budge. I think it's because xpressive's compile times are determined
> primarily by the large number of templates it instantiates, which swamps
> the PP time. I'm guessing MSM is the same. Oh, well. At least we've
> fixed the mess with the predefined limits.

You're right, there is no change in compile-time, which is still ok
for me because I got rid of the limits at no cost.
So it's still a noticeable gain for me.

Thanks a lot!
Christophe