On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Tom Brinkman wrote:
To you. There are many graphics shops that make extensive use of c++ *and* boost.
Not true. Sure, we use C++ around the edges. The actual graphics code is all done in C. There are no popular C++ graphics libraries. Sorry. Its not possible, graphics libraries require hardware acceleartion.
I never understood this idea that some libraries were not possible to build in C++. And, specifically, what graphics hardware acceleration has to do with C++(-specific) constructs. Are there intrinsic inefficiencies of C++ constructs (beside one indirection by virtual functions where they are used)? Is it something else? Yes, most low-level API's require a pointer to a memory area in the end, but does that force us to constantly send that raw pointer around? /David