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Why boost is impractical

bsod — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:15:52 +0000

In the C++ programming world, the peer reviewed boost libraries are a gold standard to measure every other library on. Several parts of this library are being made standard in the next C++ standard, C++0x.

So, everybody would be using boost, right?

Well, no… You see, boost is a BIG library. It installs 64Mb worth of header files alone, 24Mb of libraries, and takes 20 minutes to compile on my machine, an average dual-core.

Now suppose I have a simple C++ program, a few files long, that uses some boost to parse the commandline. that would build in some seconds… why would i wait for 20 minutes for the code to arrive to simply parse the commandline? I’m not very happy that parsing the commandline this way requires you to redistribute a 300K+ .dll file.

GNU getopt on the other hand, compiles to less than 5K of code that you link in directly, so no .dll needed.

And they both do more or less the same thing. Sure, boost.program_options does a lot more, but it just is too excessive. And that’s why boost is impractical. You want a sip, but you get a bucketload shoved down your throat

PVV grootste in Almere?

bsod — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:05:21 +0000

Uit het lijstje van hun standpunten:

Meer politie op straat en extra veiligheid door nieuwe stadscommando’s
Geen hoofddoekjes in publieke functies en een burqaverbod
Aanpak overlast Oost-Europese werknemers
Preventief fouilleren op wapens in de hele stad
Geen dieronvriendelijke halalmaaltijden in het ziekenhuis en zorginstellingen
Geen halalmaaltijden in school- en sportkantines

Okee, dat is toch echt wel vervelend van ze, dat ze de moslims nu pakken op het eten, en dan echt de kinderen van moslims expliciet discrimineren. Kijk, hun ouders leren die kinderen, in feite, om halal te eten, en hun wordt wel ff twee keer onrecht aangedaan. Ik heb het altijd al een kutstad gevonden.

hoot!! Happy 2010 all!!!

bsod — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:34:19 +0000

Have fun with the fireworks everybody!

A little gem on #philosophical…

bsod — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:52:58 +0000

LionClan:  The universe is an elevenfold manifold that manifests
              as a fourfold manifold between three kinds of
              sevenfold singularities
bsod: that sounds very superstringy
LionClan:  we see and feel with fourfold vectors like photons
              and electrons, it is understandable our first guess
              was the universe is four dimensional

Some google techtalks

bsod — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:53:24 +0000

The ‘Your brain at work‘ talk is really worth it, if you’re interested in how your brain solves problems…

Google techtalk: Your Brain at Work.(also note the talk The Mechanism of Thought by Hecht-Nielsen)
Google techtalk: Nutrients for Better Mental Performance.
Google techtalk: Leadership and Vision.

I’ll also post a bunch of very good physics courses (by Leonard Susskind):

LHC is up and running

bsod — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:21:53 +0000

The Large Hadron Collider is doing its first succesful experiments.

HaR 2009

bsod — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:53:17 +0000

Ok, I’m back from Hacking at Random 2009, still with a mountain of stuff in my living room to sort out. Here are my pictures and I made one reasonable youtube movie of the ccc tent at night.

However, others made much better material available: xor-gate pictures, oisec pictures, har2009 at night, harddisk shredder, Soviet Unterzögersdorf, and a movie from anonymous.

There was also some news coverage: the homemade gsm network was on slashdot and security.nl had several articles, including this one with pictures.

C++0x dead in the water?

bsod — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:43:40 +0000

I was quite shocked to learn that C++ concepts have been voted out of the upcoming C++ standard, C++0x. I’ve written about concepts before and always have been a great fan of the feature. However mostly due to time constraints, the concept feature won’t make it into the new standard. See The Removal of Concepts From C++0x @ InformIT and The Removal of Concepts From C++0x @ Artima Developer Spotlight Forum.

Without concepts, many related features won’t make it. Is C++0x now a failed standard or not? I’m not sure, there are many things that will go into the standard that are very useful: auto variables, multithreading (if they can do this in the given time they have), library updates, etc.

However, concepts are a *major* feature, and with them the for-each loop which is so desperately needed won’t make it. Only time will tell if C++ is evolving fast enough… I hope it will.

A few great TED talks:

bsod — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:10:00 +0000

Here are a few talks:

Yay springtime…

bsod — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:17:25 +0000

Here is a nice youtube movie, made in WoW, called ‘First of May‘, you’ll have to age verify. (This video may not be suitable for minors.)