Re: [Boost Signals & Slots] Vs [libsigc++]

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

[snip]
> In boost 1.30, which is the most recent version I have used, the code in
> the
> boost directory (which contains the headers) as opposed to the libs
> directory
> (from which object code for the boost libraries is generated), is no less
> than 16M in size according to 'du', partly because the boost library is
> heavily templated and the templates are in header files.  If using
> boost::signals you would need to import libs/signals also, but that is
> much
> smaller (156K in boost 1.30).
>
> I did write a program to list dependencies in order to figure out how to
> split
> up the boost headers for particular boost libraries but I found that you
> quickly end up needing most of them.
>
> Give me monolithic.

Regardless of whether this is an accurate estimation, I am not personally
interested in the size of the headers or source code. Compiled sizes might
be interesting, but that's also not as interesting to me as the API.

Murray Cumming
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