
On 3/1/2011 8:07 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Eric Niebler
wrote: Forgive me, but that's a crap job that would be wasted on a GSoC project. :-D
I think you're projecting a bit, Eric. If I were a GSoC volunteer, making dramatic speedups in important Boost libraries by refactoring them would be very attractive to me. Not everybody feels ready to design a whole new library.
Whoops, I've mouthed off again. Sorry about that. I didn't mean to imply that it isn't a worthy goal, just that it requires little creativity. But I'll allow that my notion of what constitutes a worthwhile GSoC project may be biased. But if a student were to also use rvalue refs and variadic templates in places to eliminate unnecessary overloads, that would require something beyond the abilities of a trained monkey. (Oops, I did it again!) -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com