Writing code also involves learning much about the C++ boost libraries and discovering some important weaknesses of C++ (this time: operators
new and delete are class members which is very inconvenient if you want to impose external allocator onto existing classes). But I was also impressed how good the Sun's C++ compiler is when it comes to aggressive optimizations and heavy inlining of C++ code; this is very important with heavy template metaprogramming.Each of these topics is interesting enough to deserve its own post, so expect more posts in the upcoming days.
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Are you comparing Sun's C++ to g++ or are you impressed in general? Recently I reviewed a smart pointer implementation and was pleasantly surprised with the optimizations that g++ performed. It could be that, since the advent of STL (and, to some extent, boost), the state of the art of C++ optimization has greatly improved.
I'm just impressed in general; I didn't even compare it yet to g++. Actually, I have bad experience with compiling GCC/GDB on Solaris. Version 4.1 wouldn't compile (some configure f*up), version 4.2 compiles, but gdb has problems debugging 64-bit applications (crashes although it has been compiled with 64-bit support).
I've come to like the Sun's toolset and dbx, despite some of the compiler's bugs, much more than gcc.
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