On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 08:37, Ivan Matek <libbooze@gmail.com> wrote:
How is this [whatever it is] different from frozen (
From your doc:
Frozen Another example of library doing very similar thing to what we want to do is Frozen <https://blog.quarkslab.com/frozen-an-header-only-constexpr-alternative-to-gperf-for-c14-users.html>. For details you should consult the documentation, but the general idea is similar: try to get good hashing based on the fact the data is known at compilation time. Difference to us is that frozen does perfect hashing. "For details you should consult the documentation", right, we're getting somewhere, oh, maybe not ... "Difference to us is that frozen does perfect hashing": ... and your idea is ... to do imperfect hashing? The document is far too long and there are far too many diversions/excursions into la-la-land. Take as example the readme.md from frozen and put something similar together, please.
If you want the code feel free to ping me directly on my mail ...
Just stick it on github, that's what the rest of the world does ... if you want to have it included in Boost, that's what you'll need to do in the end anyway ...
, only things I require is that: you do not claim ownership of code you do not blame me for bugs in case you do use code in real production and it causes damage, in other words no liability on my part as permissible by law you do not expect me to support you in x years(if I can help you today I will) or implement features on top of this code(I think there is a good chance this code will be changed significantly including: names and hashers avaliable) you do compile with clang(GCC/VC++ are partly/fully broken for this code)
... and put an appropriate license (BSL ( https://www.boost.org/users/license.html ) comes to mind, as that's what you are proposing anyway) to deal with the above... degski -- *“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop" - Herbert Stein*