Thankfully you're right; compilers have come a long way and Clang in particular has done a lot for easing the pains of template programming in a number of ways.

Thankfully you're right; compilers have come a long way and Clang in particular has done a lot for easing the pains of template programming in a number of ways. I'm knee deep in the development of several header-based, fully templated libraries, so I still certainly feel the pains of compilation times. And while the tests/samples I deal with tend to be somewhat extreme in their (ab)use of templates, I think you'll still find that the average Boost user would give a lot for yet speedier compilation.