[C++-sig] bindings size (original) (raw)

David Abrahams dave at boostpro.com
Fri Jan 23 17:31:09 CET 2009

on Fri Jan 23 2009, Renato Araujo <renatox-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

hi all, After some vacation I got back to my library binding. Most problems have been solved but now I got another big problem here. My current binding library is very huge compared to the wrapped C++ library (about four times). Checking the code I found that the components responsible for a great deal of the size are "class" instantiation and ".def" functions. Without these functions my code size is about 300k and with these functions my code grows to enormous 4MB.

I would like to know if there is a way to minimize the library size, some other function which I can call instead of ".def" functions, to minimize template usage, or some template call that I can transform into a function call.

The usual C++ tricks apply: turn on optimizations and inlining (if using bjam add "release" to the command line), and strip symbols from the result if on *nix.

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