On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 Paul A Bristow wrote:
The effect on compile time is very bad (to me entirely unacceptable) and the method of chaining (every member function returns *this) so you can write plot.color(red).title("my_title"). ...
that Jake also used has proved much faster and just as convenient (in fact it allows a much nicer and more flexible layout).
So I strongly recommend against using Boost.Parameter based on this experience.
Heeded. Chaining could also be used to provide information on discontinuities, etc. The current functional approach does however switch between implementations at compile time depending on whether an acceleration algorithm is supplied as a parameter or not. I'll have to think about how to handle this in the chained approach ....