[zeromq-dev] ZeroMQ and Boost

Pieter Hintjens ph at imatix.com
Tue Jul 28 14:51:05 CEST 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:54 AM, dhruva<dhruva at ymail.com> wrote:

> Any thoughts on  getting ZeroMQ part of Boost? Since MQ is a pattern for distributed computing, I feel it could fit in Boost. With Boost ASIO and ZeroMQ, the distributed computing story will be more complete.
> Since Boost has various locks, ZeroMQ could use that instead of having its own. I am still exploring the ZeroMQ code to find similarities or overlapping functionality with Boost. Just my thought that I felt like sharing.

This is a very interesting idea.  We'd thought of using Boost to make
0MQ, but it was slow in fatal ways.  However, putting 0MQ into Boost
is much neater and would make it accessible to lots more people.

Any suggestions for how to proceed?

-Pieter



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