Re: [boost] [Review] Shmem

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-10 10:03:06

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of David Abrahams
| Sent: 10 February 2006 13:52
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Shmem
| 
| Paul Giaccone <paulg_at_[hidden]> writes:
| 
| > I haven't looked at the library, but I'd like to raise a 
| minor point.  I 
| > think the name "shmem" is bad as it doesn't tell you what 
| the library is 
| > about - most Boost libraries have more descriptive names.  "Shmem" 
| > sounds to me like a letter of the Hebrew alphabet rather 
| than the name 
| > of a Boost library.  

|Yeah, it's barely even pronounceable for a native english speaker that
|doesn't also speak Hebrew ;-)
 
As "a native english speaker that doesn't also speak Hebrew"

this is my only contribution to this review:

Boost.Shared_memory

or Boost.Shared  -- if it can apply to more than RAM memory?

PLEASE.

Paul

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