On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM, dariomt <dariomt@gmail.com> wrote:
PS: when i try to propose using boost I always get: 'Hum... what's the overhead
compared to doing it by hand?'
As ever the answer is to measure it.
I have huge sympathy with this post tho', as it's an issue I often have to address too. Unfortunately, when I have done measurements it has generally shown that there is
some performance penalty to be paid for use of bind/function combinations. OTOH, there is some performance penalty to paid for using C/C++ rather than assembler too, so where do you draw the line?
The payback of course is clarity of expression, and cleaner representation of idioms
and algorithms. I'd very much rather code a for_each algorithm than a for-loop, but that's because it seems to me to be better. Sometimes my colleagues don't share my perspective.
I'd be interested if you find answers to any of these things.