[pmelendez]

Perspective is not an expensive feature and I really doubt it would contribute significally to code inflation.

Start using libraries for a tiny feature without consider the whole size impact is what is driving code inflation. Now and then I find a very tiny project which executable is big just because they are linking again Boost for just one couple of classes.

[mannykannot]

I am sure you are right about the big picture. Library inclusion has leverage, and library code is written for the general case. Templates provide a way to specialize the code that is built, but I imagine that cross-cutting concerns ultimately limit the degree to which you can create generic code that compiles to exactly what you want, and nothing more.

[userbinator]

Perspective is not an expensive feature and I really doubt it would contribute significally to code inflation.

It depends on how it's been implemented.

[paulddraper]

All of Boost?

It's modular, so you should just have to pull in what you use.

[pmelendez]

In practice it is not very modular, parts of the library like Asio are so dependent to other parts in boost, and given that bootstrapping can be an annoyance at times, I have seen a los of project that decided to include the whole library.