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Boostcon 2008

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This page will contain the notes that I will make during Boostcon 2008. For a trip-report, see the Trip report boostcon 2008-page.

Boost.Extension & Boost.Reflection

Extension

Problems with shared libraries

  • performance
  • differences in semantics of open, close, getprocaddr
  • name mangling, extern "C" losing type safety
shared_library m("my_module_name");
m.open();
m.get<int(float)>(function_name")(5.0f);
m.close();

Reflection

as expected...

liaw Tuesday

quickbook

Joel

  • docs in boost head/tools

Installing it on windows:

  • quickbook uses boostbook uses docbook.
  • problem with latest xslt: do not download latest version (may have been fixed). Use 1.66.1 version. Not listed on sourceforge. Just change url while downloading from sf.
  • Eric's docs demonstrate how to use doxygen

Eric:

import doxygen
import quickbook;

doxygen autodoc
   :
     [ glob ../../../boost/xpresive/*.hpp]
   :
     <doxygen:param>X=Y
;

xml xpressive
  :
     xpressive.qbk
  ;

boostbook standalone
  :
        xpressive
  :
     
  • boostdocs mailinglist discusses how to get rid of boost-headers.
  • URLs to code can be svn urls.

concurrency

  • Intel TBB as a starting point [1]
  • TPL?

containers

range

[www.boost-consulting.com/vault/ file vault]

range_ex has versions of stl algorithms that accept ranges. return type can be customized (range, iterator, what range).