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* VJ:
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> Does it means that the boost library will not boost much the size of
> your program?
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> For our project, that was the reason not to use this library

If you mean, Boost was not used because it would not inflate much the
sizes of the programs, well, that may make sense from a marketing point
of view when a main selling point is huge size.

If you mean, Boost was not used because it would not reduce much the
sizes of the programs, then that doesn't make much sense. The point of
Boost is not to reduce the sizes of programs, although it can do that.
The point is to provide solid, dependable, standardized tools for
solving common programming problems, like smart pointers.

If you mean, Boost was not used because it would not reduce much the
size of the program text, then I strongly suspect that incorrect and/or
unmaintainable very short program text was compared to incorrect /and/or
incompetently written somewhat longer text using Boost. Anyway, what
do you then do with the next version of the compiler? Refuse to use the
standard library because it then incorporates parts of Boost?

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