Warp wrote:

>   Well, one idea (or maybe more a side-effect) of template metaprogramming
> is: Why calculate something at runtime if you can do it at compile time?
> 
>   It often may result in faster binaries. OTOH there are some huge projects
> where compilation times are counted in hours rather than seconds, where
> significantly slower compilation times might become an issue.

I personally tend to prefer longer compile times for shorter runtimes.

OTOH, the largest programs I've ever written probably didn't exceed a 
few hundred lines, so...

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