Re: [Boost-users] Signals2 benchmark

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Signals2 benchmark
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-09 20:00:05

On 8 Feb 2015 at 19:25, Nevin Liber wrote:

> > > Is it reallistic that folks would want a variant of signals that's not
> > > threadsafe, trading some callback restrictions for performance?
> >
> > I think a version which is compile time switchable is the ideal.
> >
> 
> -1.
> 
> Unless you can always build everything from source (as opposed to linking
> against libraries built by others), this becomes a nightmare when trying to
> avoid ODR violations.

It would be a very poor implementation that had that problem Nevin. 
You'd almost certainly use namespaces or template parameters to make 
symbol unique the two implementations.

Niall

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