Mathias Gaunard wrote:
Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
It's not the first time I've seen this, and I still do not understand what the belief of template meta-programming causing bloat is based on.
I suppose that depends on the template handling mechanism the compiler toolchain uses but I would expect that info to be erased at link time (shared libraries can be also. Anyway, my affirmation is based on "impressions" that might be false (the cause of the bloat might be related to the instantiation and *use* of many different classes and functions created using template techniques). What it's clear is that compilation times are much higher, and I really appreciate compilation times (more compilation time means less programmer productivity). I should definitely do some small tests to see if executable size is actually increased. Thanks for the comment. Regards, Ion