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Is boost.python dead?
by Mikhail Matrosov 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hello, I made a pull request for boost.python: https://github.com/boostorg/python/pull/15 Two weeks passed since then and I had no reaction still. Did I do something wrong? I see no pulse for the project. Is it alive? Is there a way to find out its status? The last meaningful commit is dated back to 7 Dec 2012. ----- Best regards, Mikhail Matrosov

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[flat_map] Any interest in a flat_map variant that is much faster on insertion/erase at the price of a slower lookup?
by Giacomo Drago 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hi My library is not ready for a formal review process, and I'd like to ask whether there is some potential interest first, thus saving everybody a lot of time. I have been working on a flat_map (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_57_0/doc/html/boost/container/flat_map.html) variant that keeps some of the distinctive features of the original one (contiguous storage/cache friendliness, zero memory overhead/shrink_to_fit support, vector-based representation, etc...) but makes insertion and erasure of the elements much faster, at the price of a slower lookup and in-order traversal. Explaining how it works requires time and it's not really necessary if there is no interest in the first place (e.g. "thanks, but we have no use for this"). Let's get straight to the benchmarks and to some conclusions. #elems: 50000 std::map: Random insertion: 18.605 ms Random find: 24.382 ms Iteration: 5.658 ms Random erase: 37.166 ms experimental::flat_map: Random insertion: 400.141 ms Random find: 12.352 ms Iteration: 7.099 ms Random erase: 467.051 ms boost::container::flat_map: Random insertion: 611.678 ms Random find: 6.293 ms Iteration: 0.038 ms Random erase: 615.311 ms #elems: 200000 std::map: Random insertion: 146.394 ms Random find: 163.506 ms Iteration: 21.973 ms Random erase: 225.314 ms experimental::flat_map: Random insertion: 5068.93 ms Random find: 65.618 ms Iteration: 34.244 ms Random erase: 6851.09 ms boost::container::flat_map: Random insertion: 10696.9 ms Random find: 43.896 ms Iteration: 0.254 ms Random erase: 10604 ms Of course one doesn't expect the random insertion to have a performance that is comparable to the one of a tree-based map, like std::map. However, my experimental::flat_map provides a better trade-off than boost's flat_map for me, as random insertion is massively faster and in the big picture of the application I am developing this is making a hell of a difference. Am I making any sense? Shall I polish the implementation, publish it, and submit a proposal? I'd really appreciate your feedback. Kind Regards Giacomo

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1.58.0 rc2 is now available
by Marshall Clow 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Release candidate files for 1.58.0 are available at: http://boost.cowic.de/rc/ Since rc1, the changes that were causing the serialization libraries to fail to build on MSVC have been reverted. As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy. This helps ensure the candidates build OK before we push them out to SourceForge. The files (and associated md5s) are: MD5 (boost_1_58_0_rc2.7z) = 43e0d47cc9f5f2a07761808b9da57c0a MD5 (boost_1_58_0_rc2.tar.bz2) = 52147381c97685eb045b5b022ad51a35 MD5 (boost_1_58_0_rc2.tar.gz) = cb33afaa557dea2f700bffec8a91d87e MD5 (boost_1_58_0_rc2.zip) = 412676a9a7d9903eb5a260209ad78f0a Thanks! -- The release managers P.S. Release notes are here: http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_58_0.html

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Re: [boost] [SORT] Parallel Algorithms
by Francisco José Tapia 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi , In the file of this link, in my dropbox space, you have the code, the test programs and the benchmarks with GCC. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8437476/works/sort/Sort_V0.1.7z *FILE DESCRIPTION* In the root folder of the file you have a INSTRUCTIONS.txt file detailing the content of all the folders of the file, information for to compile the programs, where is each file, and which options and libraries you must link. *Test* Contains the test programs of each class and algorithms. *Src* Contains the source code of all. In the folder *src/boost/sort* there is a file *algorithm.hpp*, which is the only include file needed for invoke the algorithms. The parallel algorithms have a parameter of the NThread type which indicate the number of threads to use. By default use the same number than the HW threads of the machine. it's a very simple structure defined in boost/sort/util/atomic.hpp. *Benchmarks* In this folder are the benchmark code with GCC compiler under Linux x64. In the future I will add benchmarks with other compiler and Operating Systems. The folders *cpp-TimSort-master*, and *parallel_stable_sort* have the C++ code of the TimSort algorithm, found in https://travis-ci.org/gfx/cpp-TimSort, and the code of the sample sort with TBB. The code had been modified, due to the four versions use the same name space and many common names, and was not possible invoke the four versions in the same program. The modification put each version in a different name space. In the folder *GCC*, you can find 3 folders - *algorithm* : Have the code of the benchmark programs - *bin *: have the compiled and static linked version of the benchmark programs. In this folder you have a shell run.sh which run sequentially the programs and collect the results obtained in .txt files with the same name than the program - *Results *: in this folder you can find the result generated by the benchmark programs on different machines. Each machine have a folder where you can find the text files with the same name than the programs with the results, and a description.txt file with the description of the HW where run the benchmarks. The format used in this folder is the suggested for to present the results of all the machines used in the test. Here you have the result of my two computers, and can have a first idea about the results expected in other machines. The benchmarks, like in the old version, have a version with 64 bits numbers, and a version with objects of several sizes. About the memory used for of the algorithms. If you consider M the memory used by the data, the total memory used by the algorithms are : - GCC sort → M - boost sort → M - GCC parallel_sort → M - boost parallel_sort → M - TBB parallel_sort → M - GCC stable_sort → 2 M - boost stable_sort → 1.5 M - TimSort -> 2M - GCC parallel_stable_sort → 2.5 M - TBB parallel_sort → 2 M - boost sample_sort → 2 M - boost parallel_stable_sort → 1.5 M The algorithms use the indirect version when the size of the objects is greater than 128 bytes. I am speaking with several friends, for to run the benchmarks in more powerful machines. I think, the first is to check the speed. If the speed is good, we have something useful , if not, we must decide what must do with this. If something is useful , or we must leave all. If we decide continue, the next steps to do are : Reorganize the benchmark, and include benchmarks with string objects. Your idea about the use of files, I thing is the correct way to follow Finish all the documentation of the code for to generate a Doxygen documentation Generate the web pages of documentation for the Boost project Modify the test programs for to do according the bjam files If you found any problem , error or doubt, please , contact me for to resolve Francisco

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[align] Conflicts during git pull
by Andrey Semashev 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Hi, When updating my local copy 'git pull' failed on Boost.Align with the following error: git pull Auto-merging test/is_aligned_test.cpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in test/is_aligned_test.cpp Auto-merging test/aligned_delete_test.cpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in test/aligned_delete_test.cpp Auto-merging test/aligned_allocator_test.cpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in test/aligned_allocator_test.cpp Auto-merging test/aligned_allocator_adaptor_test.cpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in test/aligned_allocator_adaptor_test.cpp Auto-merging test/aligned_alloc_test.cpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in test/aligned_alloc_test.cpp Auto-merging test/align_test.cpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in test/align_test.cpp Auto-merging test/Jamfile.v2 CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in test/Jamfile.v2 Auto-merging meta/libraries.json CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in meta/libraries.json Auto-merging index.html CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in index.html Auto-merging include/boost/align/is_aligned.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/is_aligned.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/max_count_of.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/max_count_of.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/max_align.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/max_align.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/is_alignment.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/is_alignment.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/is_aligned.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/is_aligned.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/alignment_of.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/alignment_of.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc_sunos.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc_sunos.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc_posix.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc_posix.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc_msvc.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc_msvc.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc_macos.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc_macos.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc_android.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc_android.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/aligned_alloc.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/align_cxx11.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/align_cxx11.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/align.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/align.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/addressof.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/addressof.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/detail/address.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/detail/address.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/aligned_delete_forward.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/aligned_delete_forward.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/aligned_delete.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/aligned_delete.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/aligned_allocator_forward.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/aligned_allocator_forward.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/aligned_allocator_adaptor_forward.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/aligned_allocator_adaptor_forward.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/aligned_allocator_adaptor.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/aligned_allocator_adaptor.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/aligned_allocator.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/aligned_allocator.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/aligned_alloc.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/aligned_alloc.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align/align.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align/align.hpp Auto-merging include/boost/align.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in include/boost/align.hpp Auto-merging example/make_aligned.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in example/make_aligned.hpp Auto-merging example/aligned_vector.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in example/aligned_vector.hpp Auto-merging example/aligned_ptr.hpp CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in example/aligned_ptr.hpp Auto-merging doc/align.qbk CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in doc/align.qbk Auto-merging doc/Jamfile.v2 CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in doc/Jamfile.v2 Auto-merging README.md CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in README.md Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result. This is on the master branch. I didn't modify my local copy of Boost.Align, so there must have been some weird change upstream that cannot be merged automatically. Does anyone know why this happens? For now I just reset my local branch to be equal to the remote master, but this kind of problem happened before and it breaks my update scripts.

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Call for Papers for Meeting C++ 2015 ends on Wednesday
by Jens Weller 05 Apr '15

05 Apr '15

Hello Boost & Qt Community, the call for papers for this years Meeting C++ Conference got extended and ends on Wednesday(April 8th) next week! Especially talks about libraries have still a good chance to get voted into the conference, and also the embedded theme track! CfP announcement: http://meetingcpp.com/index.php/newsreader/items/call-for-papers-for-meetin… The voting will begin shortly after the end of the CfP and run ~10 days, this will give me guidance to select the right talks for this years conference! thanks, Jens Weller

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Equivalent of boost-commits?
by Steven Watanabe 05 Apr '15

05 Apr '15

AMDG I used to subscribe to boost-commits under svn. I couldn't find any way to set this up under github. Also, does anyone know how to subscribe to all repositories, without having to handle each repository individually? In Christ, Steven Watanabe

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Messages from list marked as spam
by Olaf van der Spek 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Hi, Email from certain people on the list is marked as spam by gmail: "Why is this message in Spam? It has a from address in teamviewer.com but has failed teamviewer.com's required tests for authentication. " Is there a problem with the setup of this mailing list? -- Olaf

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[sync] Needs a 'master' branch
by Edward Diener 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

I created a Github issue that the sync library needs a 'master' branch, even if its just the current 'develop' branch. Please let's get this done. It is more than just irritating that: git submodule foreach --recursive git checkoout master stops and fails because a Boost library does not have a 'master' branch.

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[where to start][got work for me?][newbee][can I help with something?]
by vivek dhiman 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Hello all So I am not sure what's gonna happen to my GSoC application. But as this is my last sem(probably last chance to learn), I guess I can start doing some work anyways. May be 1 to 2 hours per weekday and 3-4 during the weekends. Is there some work that someone wants me to do? I am new to this. So I actually have no idea how to ask/start. But I am happy to be involved. Sorry if it is considered as spam. I am ready to learn and make mistakes. Thanks Vivek

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