David Abrahams wrote: > I'm wondering about the appropriateness of using Spirit for the > QuickBook parser. Even on a fast machine, the QuickBook interpreter > takes a *long* time to compile (with GCC 4.0.3, even in release mode). > > That's got to make it hard to work on QuickBook. As cool as Spirit > is, I know the same job could be done with Python code with no > appreciable parsing slowdown, and effectively zero compilation time.
I agree this is an issue: personally I build quickbook in release mode (make a *big* difference when parsing largish projects), and put it in my path, then add a "using quickbook quickbook ;" to my user-config.jam. You don't want to be rebuilding it too frequently :-) HTH, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Boost-docs mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe and other administrative requests: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-docs
