----- Original Message ----- From: "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Paul Mensonides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > Well, yes. If you do that, however, it removes one of the primary > > reasons > >> > to use enumerations, which is for the syntactic convenience. The only > >> > reason left to use enums is to avoid the static storage of the > >> > values. > >> > >> And to improve compilation and linking speed. > > I haven't done the tests of course, but I'd expect it to be faster > anyway. Allocating space in the link map for the static constant and > resolving it across translation units has to cost something. I guess it would depend heavily on the compiler used. For instance, a compiler might not actually create the storage at all unless the address of the static const is actually needed--which would cause the effect to be minimal. On the other hand, unless you mapped all the enumerators of a particular value to the same type, you'd have issues with name lookup. Paul Mensonides _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
