On 2/24/2011 11:00 AM, Eric Niebler wrote:
On 2/24/2011 8:57 AM, Joel de Guzman wrote:
So will TMP scale? Definitely! Will there be a future for Phoenix and other template heavy libraries? Unequivocally YES!
At the very least I would say: Phoenix3 is ahead of its time. Thomas Heller did an amazing job!
Ugh, these valid concerns about compile time and space are ... valid. Yes, it'll get better over time, Joel's right, but there are things that can be done today. Proto and Fusion can be preprocessed like MPL. Proto can use variadic templates and rvalue references where available to bring down the number of overloads. Things /can/ be better today. If only there were more time.
If you go back to the Op's main concern, it is about VS PCH limits with Phoenix3 at about /Zm160 and VC8's default: /Zm100 which is at about 75MB and "big" Boost libraries are around /Zm50. Yes, things can be better today, but only to a certain extent. This is one that I do not think we can fix other than to bump to /ZM160 and beyond. Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boostpro.com http://boost-spirit.com