Re: [Boost-users] What's so cool about Boost.MPI?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] What's so cool about Boost.MPI?
From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-19 10:26:04

Den 19-10-2010 14:59, Mathias Gaunard skrev:
> On 18/10/10 23:41, David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> Just wanted to call some attention to this article I wrote about
>> Boost.MPI:
>>
>> http://daveabrahams.com/2010/09/03/whats-so-cool-about-boost-mpi/
>>
>> I think it might be useful to link that from the Boost.MPI docs, too.
>
> While the library seems nice (it bridges serialization with MPI), I
> don't really see anything in there that makes me think it's "so cool".
>
> So after reading it, I felt a bit like the question "What's so cool
> about Boost.MPI?" remained unanswered.

The semi-automatic, but very easy to maintain, way of 
creating/maintaining the MPI type maps (via Boost.Serialization), IIUC.

-Thorsten