Re: [Boost-users] Boost and Real Time

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost and Real Time
From: Tim St. Clair (timothysc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-18 14:28:28

Brian -

    You pose a very broad set of questions, whose only answer would be
another set of questions.  (It depends on what you are doing...)  I use
boost in numerous "real time/embedded" environments (VxWorks, Linux, ...)
and find the extensibility is a greater advantage to "gut-busting"
performance, but again this depends upon what you are doing.

    First thing you should do is evaluate compiler support and attempt to
build the libraries.  Vlad has instructions on cross-build environments, or
you can chroot, or kvm, it's up to you how you wish to build.  You may come
across some anomalies with some libraries, and the users & build group can
help you with that.

   Next I would be to take a serious look at your requirements and the
problem domain.  It's been my experience that "real-time" usually involves
small sub-sections of code which are super important, and mountains of other
code for doing other things.  For that mountain of other code, I would
suggest using boost where it "makes sense".

Good Luck,
Tim

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Brian Wrenn <dcbrianw_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm an experienced C++ programmer, but very new to Boost.  I'm looking
> into making use of it for my next project, which will run on LynxOS, a
> real time system.  Does anyone have any experience, knowledge of
> pitfalls, or words of wisdom to share about building and running with
> Boost, or more likely a subset of Boost's libraries, for a real time
> system?
>
> Thanks for any help.
> -Brian
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Regards,
Timothy St. Clair
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