Re: [boost] Synapse library review starts today December 2

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Nat Goodspeed wrote:

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

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See http://zajo.github.io/boost-synapse/questions_and_answers.html.

Thanks.

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In Synapse the emitter is simply a "meeting place": using emit<foo>(p) to emit the signal foo from the object p will call any functions that were connected by connect<foo>(p,f), where p is simply (the address of) any object (of any type whatsoever) you have in your program.

So, the library contains something like a thread_local unordered_map whose keys are arbitrary pointers?

Unspecified implementation details, but yes -- plus (optional) lifetime management of connections through weak_ptr, so that the connection expires when the emitter and/or the target expire. And, there is support for interthread communication: http://zajo.github.io/boost-synapse/interthread_communication_support.html. Thanks, Emil