Bloatware.

[swestrup]

I don't get it. I just installed Boost on this little laptop. Boost is a C++ library that prides itself on being mostly headers. In other word, 98% of it installs without any need for compilation.

So, can anyone tell me why it took over 20 hours on this machine for its install script to finish compiling stuff, and why the final output was almost 40 Gig? I now don't have any room to actually write and run the programs I was thinking of working on.

Comments

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

Header files can be compiled too... and there could be macros... lots of macros ;)

Seriosuly, though, I have no idea since I've never looked at Boost.

[swestrup]

If you code in C++, you owe it to yourself to look at Boost. Its the best-designed set of C++ libraries anywhere, and more than once I've discovered that some utility code that I needed to write already existed in Boost, and was far more competent than what I had planned.

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

It's been years since I did anything (serious) in C++ but I'll try to stick a small post-it note in that part of my brain for future reference. Thanks :)