On Wednesday 30 June 2004 4:44 am, Vladimir Prus wrote:
Hello, I've became interested in how efficient code-size-wise boost::function is, so I wrote a small script which generates a function which calls boost::function object N times and finds the size of the generated function.
The results are somewhat interesting and somewhat alarming (to me). [snip] Given that, IIUC, boost::function has to do indirect call somewhere anyway, I'm not sure inlining is such a good idea. Maybe some of the methods should be declared out-of-line, so that compiler don't try to inline them?
If I can find a way to do it that won't break many compilers (e,g,, MSVC 6 that can't handle out-of-line definitions for templates) I'll do this for 1.32.0; otherwise, it'll have to wait until after the release. Doug