Resigning from Boost.Profiler
I am going to have to stop development of Boost.Profiler. IMO there is still a huge gap between where it is and where it would have to go to be both robust and simple enough to be appropriate for Boost. Honestly I don't see it happening without a more robust and portable high_resolution_timer, which requires far more time and energy than I am willing to commit. Where is the best place to upload my current snapshot, so that others can take over if they want? Christopher Diggins Object Oriented Template Library (OOTL) http://www.ootl.org
christopher diggins wrote:
I am going to have to stop development of Boost.Profiler. IMO there is still a huge gap between where it is and where it would have to go to be both robust and simple enough to be appropriate for Boost. Honestly I don't see it happening without a more robust and portable high_resolution_timer, which requires far more time and energy than I am willing to commit.
I'm very sorry to hear this. I have not followed the discussion carefully, but my impression was that everything was going well.
Where is the best place to upload my current snapshot, so that others can take over if they want?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Turkanis" <technews@kangaroologic.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:43 PM Subject: [boost] Re: Resigning from Boost.Profiler
christopher diggins wrote:
I am going to have to stop development of Boost.Profiler. IMO there is still a huge gap between where it is and where it would have to go to be both robust and simple enough to be appropriate for Boost. Honestly I don't see it happening without a more robust and portable high_resolution_timer, which requires far more time and energy than I am willing to commit.
I'm very sorry to hear this. I have not followed the discussion carefully, but my impression was that everything was going well.
Where is the best place to upload my current snapshot, so that others can take over if they want?
http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/
Jonathan
Thanks, I have uploaded the code to the vault as profiler.zip As Brian pointed out, he is now trying the code out. The code as it stands does work somewhat (at least on windows), but here is a list of things which I am disatisfied with: - there is still only a high_resolution timer on windows - the windows timer is jittery - the windows timer has a very high latency - the windows timer should use time_duration instead of using a template type in the profile manager - the default profile_manager uses a map with string keys to store stats for individual profiles, which is VERY inefficient - the windows timer has other bugs which are not documented (one Booster testified to this) - the workaround for an inherent bug in the Windows API call is unsatisfactory - many users are going to run into underflow problems - I could find no satisfactory default way of dealing with underflow and overflow Big thank you to Brian for stepping up to the plate on this one! Christopher Diggins Object Oriented Template Library (OOTL) http://www.ootl.org
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