19 May
2010
19 May
'10
11:54 p.m.
At Wed, 19 May 2010 19:49:33 +0000 (UTC), Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
Templates do lead to the larger code size and larger compilation time. You can hardly argue with that.
I certainly can. It all depends how they are used. If you use other means of polymorphism (e.g. virtual functions) on a fine-grained level, the cost in code size of dispatching to trivial functions that could otherwise be inlined can easily overwhelm “template code bloat.” http://www.cpptalk.net/image-vp103267.html#103267 Not that I'm saying a networking library would be designed that way... -- Dave Abrahams Meet me at BoostCon: http://www.boostcon.com BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com