Re: [boost] Libraries and C++ compliance

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:

On 10/04/2017 10:09, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

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On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:

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Warning: MSVC generates significant code bloat when using Outcome in large code bases. If you can use VS2017 which implements C++ 14 constexpr and has a better optimiser for modern C++, you will see tigher executables. Execution speed is not particularly different, though one would have thought the extra cache load caused by code bloat might affect some applications. In this situation, use LLVM clang targeting

What situation? VS2015?

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the MSVC ABI."

Note the phrase "Warning: **MSVC** generates significant ..."

Note the earlier mention that VS2015 Update 2 or later is known to work. This implies VS2015 Update 1 or earlier does not.

Does it not work at all or does it do bloated code?

VS2017 which implements C++ 14 constexpr and has a better optimiser for modern C++, you will see tigher executables.

This bit makes it sound VS2017 is required to avoid the code bloat. -- Olaf