-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/2010 03:32 AM, Marius wrote:
I'm happy to announce that the third release of the Extended Integer library is ready, in both the sandbox and the Vault. [...]
Hi, i must say that i'm a bit concerned about making thread safety a compile time option especially considering that on unix systems you don't ussually compile the library and ship it with your program.
I see your point, but I don't consider that a major problem. Most people using the library won't need thread-safe operation; the ones that do can compile it themselves with little effort.
And if all the libraries in boost will have compile time options like that it will quickly become unmanageable for distributions.
That's hardly a problem, since "all the libraries in boost" *don't* have that kind of compile-time option. Though several of them already do... just off the top of my head, Boost.Regex requires a compile-time option to support Unicode characters, and I seem to recall several others.
I would suggest that you either make thread safe the default compile behaviour
That's not really an option, for two reasons: thread-safe behavior is markedly slower, and it has dependencies on Boost.Move (which isn't yet an official Boost library) and Boost.Thread (which, as a compiled library itself, requires linking). The single-thread version is much faster and doesn't require either of those.
or offer both safe and unsafe classes.
Certainly possible, though it would complicate the library.
Or better make it all a header only library wich i'd think is a good idea considering that it is not likely to bloat a program that much or to be too time consuming to compile.
That *would* simplify things a great deal. I've never tried it though... an extra 130K of headers in every source code file that uses the library is a little much, isn't it? - -- Chad Nelson Oak Circle Software, Inc. * * * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvcRkUACgkQp9x9jeZ9/wSiQgCg7HPo0X/1OLTzmMrGB/eyJO8R BEkAoOLTyH2ZxofLBHkJDqt90eOPI6qz =+/nJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----