Meyers effective C++, templates, np-complete

Scott Meyers in Effective C++ at the start of the templates section
says that C++ templates are np-complete in the compiler processing.
Does this mean that the use of templates can cause the compile to
execute for an infinite loop or near infinite loop?
Todd.

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