The X Macro

[Walter Bright]

MIURA Masahiro wrote:
> On 06/25/2010 07:10 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/06/the_x_macro.html
> 
> Interesting technique that I haven't heard of.  However one of my 
> friends, a lead programmer at Sega, says they use similar technique 
> extensively in C++; actually they avoid overusing it, as it slows down 
> compilation considerably.

It shouldn't. I wonder what they are doing, or if perhaps they just have a 
miserably slow macro processor.