On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Gevorg Voskanyan <v_gevorg@yahoo.com> wrote:
Rene Rivera wrote:
On 5/22/2010 7:24 AM, Gevorg Voskanyan wrote:
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"Standalone. Boost.Build's only dependency is a C compiler, so it's easy to setup. You can even include all of Boost.Build in your project. Boost.Build does not depend on C++ Boost in any way."
Copied from http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/index.html
Also, I now remember reading this a while ago: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/milestone/Boost.Jam%204.0.0
Another thing to note is that building bjam from source is currently an *impressively* fast operation; that property would surely be lost had bjam been reimplemented based on Boost.Spirit. OTOH, as building of bjam itself is relatively infrequent, I would trade the speed of building bjam for the speed of building my projects *with* bjam any day.
I've just about changed my mind on those two counts.. Precisely because of that *runtime* speed tradeoff.
Very interesting... I'd very much like to see Boost.Build speed improved. So if there is anything I can do to help achieving that, I'll be happy to contribute!
Well as a pure interesting-idea type thing, perhaps a toybjam project, just to see if we could get any runtime power/speed in exchange for compile-time. Can add new abilities such as multi-threaded to scan multiple directories at the same time, among other features. May not ever be used, but in any case it would make for a fascinating case project for Spirit and maybe LLVM too.