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In article <1991Mar29.184915.9063@cbnewsk.att.com> hansen@pegasus.att.com (Tony L. Hansen) writes:

> Is a pre-parsed version of a template close enough to what
>you call a compiled template? I think the market place will have to decide.

Yes, this would give the vendor some kind of copyright protection. If this
protection is needed is not for me to decide (but for the market place as
you said.)

> If a vendor chooses, it may decide to permit some form of
>"pre-parsing" to occur on templates. This would allow a library creator to
>distribute a pre-parsed form of the template instead of raw source.

This has nothing to do with the C++-standard, but it would be profitable to
be able to compile the header files alone (to a pre-parsed version.) The
header files are not changed as often as the .c-files, but if there are
very many header files, this slows down compilation.
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Ari Huttunen, email: Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi, phone: 90-7285944