Subject: Re: [boost] [function] Multi-signature function?
From: TONGARI J (tongari95_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-12 13:06:04


Hi there,

2014-03-12 1:19 GMT+08:00 TONGARI J <tongari95_at_[hidden]>:

> Hi Steven,
>
> 2014-03-12 0:45 GMT+08:00 Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>:
>
> AMDG
>>
>> On 03/11/2014 09:22 AM, TONGARI J wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I know it'd be better to say "overload", but I choose the word carefully
>> > because I'm aware of Boost.OverloadedFunction, which is not what I'm
>> > talking here (it's complementary, though).
>> >
>> > What I want is to have std/boost::function support multi-signature
>> itself,
>> > instead of relying on some external wrapper which is less efficient. For
>> > example:
>> >
>>
>>
>> http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boost_typeerasure/examples.html#boost_typeerasure.examples.multifunction
>
>
> Thanks for the example, seems fairly easy with Boost.TypeErasure, then I'd
> like to compare the performance :)
>

For anyone interested, I wrote a benchmark:

    https://github.com/jamboree/CxxFunctionBenchmark

The usage is degenerated to single signature to compare with other function
implementations.
You could see the sample result on the page.