"Robert Ramey" <ramey@rrsd.com> writes:
There wasn't really enough data to pin anything down. Its going to take a significant effort to gather such data. Which raises an intereing question:
Boost has a strong infrastructure for testing library correctness. This infrastructure permits comparison of libraries accross different environments.
If someone had nothing else to do, it would be interesting to develop a parallel infrastructure for testing performance.
questions are regularly posted to the list regarding performance of all the libraries. Usually, any data is largely anecdotal. To really address these questions, something more is needed.
Not long ago I built the raw facilities into bjam that are needed for measuring the execution time of any build step (including one that runs programs). I need to do performance testing for the MTL rewrite, so I'll be using that. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com