On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Thorsten Ottosen <nesotto@cs.aau.dk> wrote:
Den 19-10-2010 14:59, Mathias Gaunard skrev:
While the library seems nice (it bridges serialization with MPI), I don't really see anything in there that makes me think it's "so cool".
So after reading it, I felt a bit like the question "What's so cool about Boost.MPI?" remained unanswered.
The semi-automatic, but very easy to maintain, way of creating/maintaining the MPI type maps (via Boost.Serialization), IIUC.
Take it from someone who had to wrestle with MPI with the C interface, what's so cool about Boost.MPI is really that it's idiomatic to use with C++ semantics. If you ever tried to use the C MPI interface directly you will see how much of a joy to use Boost.MPI is. But really, don't take my word from it, try it out and see for yourself. -- Dean Michael Berris deanberris.com