CTFE vs. traditional metaprogramming

[language_fan]

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:20:02 -0400, Michel Fortin thusly wrote:

> But an interesting thing I realized in the last few months is this: all
> you can do with a template you can also do at runtime provided
> sufficient runtime reflection capabilities. Even creating types!

This is a well known fact..

> And from that point of view, you can see templates as an compiled,
> optimized version of runtime reflection and type creation capabilities.

Runtime reflection can be really expensive computationally, but it 
becomes useful when you need mobile code.