John Maddock wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
Heh, I think we ought to think very carefully about changing our default.
I agree: normally our default is the same as the compiler's default, if you want to do something out of the ordinary then it's up to you to compile the lib's the way you want them. I don't think there's any way we can provide every possible binary.
John.
I agree too. But seeing how bad the STL performance is when using the default (i.e. checked iterator on). I think the least that could be done is to talk about it in the documentation and explain how to disable the checked iterators (http://boost.org/tools/build/v1/vc-8_0-tools.html seems like a good place for this). A better solution for the user would be to provide an additional variable in the VC-8_0 toolset (e.g. bjam "-sVC80_CHECKED_ITERATOR=0"). But I dunno whether that's easily feasible. Tanguy