"Mattias Flodin" <flodin@gmail.com> wrote
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:41:04 -0400, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
For the past year Aleksey Gurtovoy and I have been working on a new book, titled _C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools and Techniques from Boost and Beyond_.
Thank you David and Aleksey for putting time and effort into finishing this book. I'm sure most of us agree that it's an extremely valuable contribution to Boost and the C++ community at large, and that it is sorely needed to give the industry some momentum. I for one know I would have problems convincing certain employers to use many modern C++ techniques if I couldn't put forth some literature on the subject.
As a customer seeing this book in the bookstore, however, I think I would have one question: Am I part of the target audience? Specifically, since it appears to be a book about MPL, does it have something for people who already use MPL, or is it mostly meant to introduce the library to people who aren't already using it. The "target audience" section doesn't answer that question; perhaps it should.
One area that I am interested in is compile time performance. I see that there is information about this in the appendix. Are there any tips in the book about optimising code , aiming to get fastest compile times? regards Andy Little