John Maddock wrote: > 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 :-)
I don't see any reason why QuickBook should be built frequently. That's also what I do, unless I need to do some development on it. Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
