Re: [boost] (no subject)

On 10/8/24 20:01, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 9:56 AM Kostas Savvidis wrote:

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There are some libraries, including but not limited to the below that contain code I would be ashamed of showing in public by 2030. Some of those headers are 2,3,5 MB large. The "Slow compilation" complaint might be related to those. Is there nothing that can be done about this in the next six years?

Judging by the example code which you quoted, I would guess that these things have never been optimized. That is, optimized for compilation speed.

I believe, such code was actually the result of optimization. In C++03, preprocessed code like this is faster to compile than to generate it using preprocessor. Yes, in C++11 we got variadic templates, but updating to those is not always trivial, and someone has to do it. And the compilation time wins are also not guaranteed after the conversion.