At Monday 2005-02-07 08:04, you wrote:
Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
"Roman Dementiev" <dementiev@ira.uka.de> wrote in message news:cu7m3l$lfo$1@sea.gmane.org... | Thorsten Ottosen wrote: | > "Roman Dementiev" <dementiev@ira.uka.de> wrote in message | > news:cu62pe$a1i$1@sea.gmane.org... | > | Hello, | > | | > | I am developing a library called Stxxl. | > | > | > | Would such a library be interesting for Boost users? Does it fit here? | > | Is it worth to boostify it? | > | | > | I would be very glad to know your opinion. | > | > if you intend to submit it, would it then be possible to make it | > work on more platforms, unix (mac), windows? | | yes. One must rewrite only the lower layer of Stxxl using native | file access methods and native multithreading. is that because you need mem.mapped files? Otherwise, why don't you use boost filsystem and boost threads?
I do not necessarily need memory mapped files.
The Boost filesystem library is more about manipulating files and directories. But what I need is the file access itself: create/open/read/write/close file. I would have been using std::fstream as a portable file access method, but it lacks support of files larger than 2 GB. It is really big disadvantage in my case.
not on MY system (Windows XP, VC++7.1). Perhaps your basic standard library needs fixing
The boost threads library does fit my requirements. I would use when it comes to boostifying Stxxl.
Roman
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