Am 18.11.2012 18:51, schrieb Peter Alexander:
On Saturday, 17 November 2012 at 11:03:18 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
I just read the slides of a talk from that latest LLVM Developers'
Meeting. It's a talk about modules by Doug Gregor from Apple. It seems
that they already have started to implement this new feature in Clang.
It's about time...
I honestly cannot believe that this wasn't #1 priority for C++11.
Everyone that uses C++ for a living knows that compilation time is the
biggest practical problem with C++, yet the standards committee seems
completely unaware of this.
Herb Sutter posted a poll recently asking what people wanted most from
their C++ compiler. In the poll options he had things such as
conformance, safety, runtime performance, but didn't even think to add
compile time performance. Of course, everyone in the comments wasn't
pleased with this.
http://herbsutter.com/2012/10/03/poll-what-features-would-you-like-to-see-added-soonest-in-your-favorite-c-compiler/
I get the feeling that the C++ standards committee was formed to serve
Boost developers.
Sometimes I feel the same. Nowadays I work mostly with JVM/.NET
languages and every time I do something in C++, I really hate the
compile times.
I really don't understand why no one added modules to C and C++, taking
into consideration that the other systems programming languages of the
time already had them.
--
Paulo
