Joel de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
When you're developing the syntax or adding features, you'll build it frequently,... or it will never be adequately tested. > That's also what I do, unless I need to do some development on it. Exactly. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
