[Boost-users] [Signals] Observation about performance

I have an application that implements the Observer pattern, based on the GOF code and was interested in using Boost.Signals in a new application. Before committing myself, I decided to check the relative performance when signalling two observers. Both tests were performed on Windows XP, using MSVC 8 beta 2, with the /Ox optimisation. Here are the times for 6,000,000 signals, measured with the Win32 GetTickCount() API on a 3GHz P4 with 1GB RAM: GOF Observer: 109 Boost.Signals: 6203 Clearly, you have to trade convenience for performance with this library. - Keith MacDonald