Re: Thread-safe access to graphic objects - proposal

[Michael Goffioul]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> wrote:
> Speaking of Boost - Octave could benefit of many of the Boost
> libraries: multiarray, math/special functions, math/statistical
> distributions, uBLAS, serialization, filesystem,
> numeric conversion, smart ptr, string algo, and perhaps more...
>
> If Octave takes the burden of dependence on Boost, then a lot code may
> be rewritten to take advantage of it. For instance, the Array classes
> can be based on multiarray, the ubiquitous reference counting can be
> implemented using smart pointers, the special functions and
> statistical distributions can be reused, system calls handled by the
> system library ...
> perhaps even the parser could eventually be rewritten using Spirit.
> I'm not sure at this moment if Boost's portability matches (or
> outmatches) Octave's - it would be a problem if it didn't, of course.

You're talking about rewriting a large part of Octave. Do you really
see this as a benefit...? ;-)

Michael.