Le 05/12/12 18:26, Marcus Tomlinson a écrit :
Hmm, well SystemC is clearly very powerful and can easily achieve the same results, but my particular domain is more the higher-level, cross platform, easy-to-use, PC applications. How is your context different? Could you describe the kind of applications using your library? OMNet++ is closer to what I have, but my aim is total abstraction from the particular application. What do you mean? DSPatch allows you to build flow-based programs for any application you can think of. Could you elaborate on this? I've been working with Dataflows for past couple of months and I agree. Dataflow or Flow-Based programming is a very nifty paradigm to express
On 12/05/2012 10:34 PM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote: programs. Especially when it comes to parallel execution. I am not working in a signal processing background where this technique is well known. I investigated this programming paradigm in the past for one specific linear algebra application (Results can be seen here: http://stellar.cct.lsu.edu/pubs/isc2012.pdf and here: http://www10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Publications/Theses/2012/Heller_MA12...). We constructed the dataflow tree completely dynamicly in an almost natural way (modulo the syntatic differences). So i have to disagree with Dave Abrahams that purely compile-time based dataflow "wiring" is the most efficient way.
I looked at many implantations of this nature while developing DSPatch and found that there was almost always a steep learning curve to using them.
This is the case for any complete framework.
Not only do I want to make dataflow / flow-based programming easier for developers, I want to make it more accessable. How do you think do you achieve that compared to them?
Hopefully if I can get the support I need to get this project on Boost, it'll be widely accessible and helpful to people like me who are/were looking for something like this. This kind of programming paradigm is so useful in so many applications, it really shouldn't be as niche a topic as it is. Perhaps it's always been portrayed as too complex?
Note that SystemC and OMNet++ have a quite different engine. To which you library is closer and how it is different?
Best, Vicente
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