Are there optimized c++ compilers for template use?

Question

C++ templates have been a blessing in my everyday work because of its power. But one cannot ignore the (very very very very long) compilation time that results from the heav

Answer 1

It seems that g++ 4.5 has made tremendous progress dealing with templates. Here are the two unavoidable changes.

• "When printing the name of a class template specialization, G++ will now omit any template arguments which come from default template arguments." That could be considered a subtle modification, but it will have an enormous impact on development with c++ templates (ever heard of unreadable error messages... ? No more !)

• "Compilation time for code that uses templates should now scale linearly with the number of instantiations rather than quadratically." This is going to severely undermine compilation-time arguments against the use of C++ templates.

See on the gnu site for complete information

Actually, i am already wondering whether there still are issues with c++ templates ! Mmm, yes, there are, but let's focus on the bright side for now !