Re: [Boost-users] Signals2 benchmark

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Signals2 benchmark
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-06 01:19:58

Le 06/02/15 00:15, Joren Heit a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> New to this list, so I hope I'm at the right place, and not asking too 
> much of you guys. Please inform me if either of those is true! ;-)
>
> I have been working on a little toy project to implement a 
> template-based Signal/Slot library and now that I have a usable 
> end-product, I want to test it against boost::signals2 to get an idea 
> of how well it performs. Therefore my first question is whether 
> boost::signals2 is generally considered a high performance library.
>
> Second, I'm a little reluctant to build a benchmark suite myself, 
> because I want to be fair to both myself and the other party. I don't 
> know the signals2 library at all, let alone what its virtues and 
> shortcomings are. Some tips on what to test exactly would therefore be 
> great, although I'm afraid this request might qualify for "asking too 
> much". Initial tests show that my own library can be up to 10 times 
> faster than the boost-implementation, which makes me even more 
> suspicious that I might not be testing the right things (but at the 
> same time prematurely proud).
>
> Thanks in advance and cheers!
>
>
Hi,

just a first question: is your implementation thread-safe?

Best,
Vicente