Re: [boost] [asio] Formal Review

From: Giovanni P. Deretta (gpderetta_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-01 15:30:19

Rene Rivera wrote:
> 
> The changes Giovanni mentions are what I was expecting in the first 
> place :-) So I would also like to see such an arrangement. Perhaps I 
> should go look at Giovanni's library even if it is only sync.
> 

It is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/libstream (the 
homepage is libstream.sf.net).  The available download is old and will 
not compile on recent versions of gcc. You should download the cvs 
version.  In the homepage, you will find an use example and a link to a 
paper describing the library.  Unfortunately there is no other 
documentation available (i've never gotten around writing it). Some 
documentation can be generated with doxygen, but it is highly 
incomplete. If you want to take a look at some examples, look inside 
lib/stream/test.

I've not updated the library recently, but in the next two months, i 
will probably do some changes (because of a project i need to finish 
that uses the lib).  I will probably end up using boost::asio for the 
low level stuff.

The biggest difference to asio is that i do not encourage developers to 
use the {read|write}_some functions (even though they are available), 
but instead i provide input and output iterators and buffered streams 
that can be used with my version of the standard algos.  Many 
optimizations are not yet implemented though (like input and output 
iterators with multiple object-per-asignment support).

Hope it is useful.

PS: happy new year to everybody!
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Giovanni P. Deretta