Feb. 19, 2012
8:55 a.m.
On Feb 19, 2012 12:09 AM, "Mark Wiebe" <mwwiebe@gmail.com> wrote:
These standard library issues were definitely valid 10 years ago, but all
the major C++ compilers have great C++98 support now. Is there a specific target platform/compiler combination you're thinking of where we can do tests on this? I don't believe the compile times are as bad as many people suspect, can you give some simple examples of things we might do in NumPy you expect to compile slower in C++ vs C? The concern may be more that this will be an issue once we start templating (scipy.sparse as an example). Compiling templates requires a lot of memory (more than with the current Heath Robbinson solution). Stéfan