as a realistic program is likely to contain a lot of code in addition to tuple definitions, the difference is probably unnoticeable.
Compile time increases between 5 to 10 percentages were measured for programs which used tuples very frequently.
With the same test programs, memory consumption of compiling increased between 22% to 27%. See  
[<a href="#publ_1">1</a>,
<a href="#publ_2">2</a>]
for details.
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<h2><a name = "portability">Portability</a></h2>

<p>The library code is(?) standard C++ and thus t