Re: [Boost-users] [phoenix] V2, V3 and the amount of memory needed by the compiler to just include them

On 1 March 2011 04:45, Eric Niebler wrote:

On 3/1/2011 8:07 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Eric Niebler wrote:

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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!)

Well as a student I'll give my opinion... I agree with you that a no-brainer project would be a no-go for a GSoC project for sure. Now the problem is in the definition of "no-brainer". Surely if it consists only in a basic search and replace it might be a bit simple (monkey work as you say :p), but if it's a bit more complicated and in the end it decreases compiles time a lot it might be interesting despite the "no-creativity" part. On the other hand, I, for one, do not feel like designing a whole new proto from scratch as a GSoC proto... Mathieu-