language_fan wrote:
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:47:21 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer thusly wrote:
I actually prefer the compiler to handle the casting versus templates to
cut down on template instantiation bloat.
I wonder how D scales to 100 MLOC programs as the template instantiations
can be troublesome already in < 1000 LOC programs.
It scales to a few hundred kLoC if you don't abuse templates (too much)
and sacrifice your firstborn to OPTLINK. I don't know what's further,
perhaps a hecatomb would do.
On a more serious note, the number of template instantiations will
probably be more of the logarithmic kind with respect to LoC count.
Unless you do everything in a generic way. But writing this sort of code
is a major PITA and often a waste of time.
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Tomasz Stachowiak
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