Boris Gubenko wrote:
I have a header that makes use of Boost.Parameter that basically takes forever to compile with the Intel compiler, and therefore presumably all EDG based front ends.
There used to be a problem in EDG frontend with macro expansions taking forever. It was reported years ago by a customer using Boost on Tru64. We've reported it to EDG and it has been fixed.
Yep, I've tracked it down to the meta-programming rather than the preprocessing though.
aCC6 on HP-UX compiles testcase in http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1054 in 7 seconds. This compiler is using EDG Version 3.08.
Slow, but OK.
cxx on Tru64 compiles it in ~20 sec. This compiler is using EDG Version 3.04.
Well at least it gets there in the end :-)
Perhaps, Intel compiler you are using is using some old version of EDG fronend.
No it's EDG version 3.06. Strange. When I get a chance I'll try the latest Intel-10 compiler (EDG 3.08) and see how that copes. Either way, I think I now have a workaround that doesn't use Boost.Parameter at all, and will *hopefully* be faster to build with all compilers! Thanks for trying this out, John.