On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> Templates encourage inlining. There is at least one template > libraries where the bulk of code is implemented in separate > .cc files (using void* tricks), used by some embedded > products. But IIRC the original STL from sgi was all in .h > files and things don't seem to have changed much -- but I avoid > them so who knows. Very little of Boost libraries are libraries -- they are include files. If I have 100 files, and they include a lot of boost stuff, then I get to recompile the same Boost files many, many times. I spent several hours yesterday watching Boost "build" and then install -- 7000+ files in all. I guess it's all very useful. And modern. There was a C++ package called Pooma. It introduced the notion of 38 MB symbol tables and symbols so long (due to use of templates and so on) that they caused almost every extant C++ compiler to core dump in 1999 -- 256 characters is such a limitation on symbol name length ... the fix was to issue lots of money to people to "fix" their compiler to handle multi-thousand-character symbol names. ron
