On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:16 PM, John Femiani <JOHN.FEMIANI@asu.edu> wrote:
Unnecessarily spent time is only part of the issue. The other has a lot to do with configuration. It can be hard to get separately compiled libraries to play nice together, if one is compiled with different settings you can get some unexpected behavior or worse. If the library is all-headers then it is always compiled the same way as the rest of my code, and I like that.
So honestly, if I add up all the time that I spend building boost and configuring my various build environments (Solaris 10, Ubunty Gutsy, and Windows+vc8), and compare that to the amount of time I spend building my own code, I spend *way* more time compiling my own code. For me, the amount of time spent re-compiling things that could have gone into a pre-built library becomes very significant. I still much prefer pre-building code up front where possible. Please scroll through this list and check out how many people are
talking about thing like 'problems linking boost on XXXXX'. -- wait, you wont have to scroll far will you :) Somebody just posted a new one!
Yeah, shocking how many people don't know how to use their compiler+linker. ;-) Jon