Hi,
Ok, I started this thread, so I claim to have the right for the last words.
I have used boost before, it looks like a pretty well maintained library. I
used it because I was working on my coworker's code and in our case, he only
used the file separator ("\" vs "/") from boost. For that it probably took more
that 45 minutes to build boost in VC++, which include all other things such as
matrix manipulation, threads, signal, BLAS that we did not use.
I guess some people feel it heavy in a sense that you can't download and build
just the components you need(if there is a way to do it, I don't know and
apologize for my ignorance). Instead, everything comes in an all-inclusive
package. For small or dedicated project where resource and performance count,
it dose not look appealing.
Boost can be trusted as well tested library. Sometimes being "big" and
"all-inclusive" is not necessarily a good thing. For example, there is BLAS in
boost, but there are other free libraries around that dose the same thing (GSL,
ITK or even IPP in linux). As a result users have a choice of the BLAS from
boost, which is a component from an all-inclusive library, or they can select
GSL, ITK or IPP, which specializes just in scientific computation and dose not
offer more than that. Performance wise, I think boost still need to prove
itself that it can compete with those dedicated libraries.
At this point, it's totally personal preference and project needs. For me, I
tend to use the libraries that dose only one thing well and leave small memory
footprints. I like it that way because I have the freedom to use that libraries
for other purposes, so it's more flexible that way.
Thank you!
Cheers,
Rabbi
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