Bug#950819: ITP: h5cpp-compiler -- LLVM based compiler assisted reflection for modern C++
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: steven@vargaconsulting.ca
* Package name : h5cpp-compiler
Version : 1.10.4.5
Upstream Author : Steven Varga <steven@vargaconsulting.ca>
* URL : http://h5cpp.org
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: C++
Description : LLVM based compiler assisted reflection for modern C++
H5CPP-compiler automates the tedious and error prone process of handwriting HDF5
compound type data descriptors providing similar level of data
serialization/persistence experience of popular interpreted languages
but compile time.
This non-intrusive source code transformation tool is a companion to h5cpp
template library it builds the AST of a specified translation unit,
identifies arbitrary deep POD struct variables referenced/used by the
template library operators:
h5::create | h5::read | h5::write | h5::append
h5::acreate | h5::aread | h5::awrite
and generates the necessary HDF5 compound datatype descriptors. In the second
phase, using system compiler gcc,clang,msvc, ... the user compiles this now
complete translation unit into an object file.
The h5cpp compiler assisted reflection and its companion header library
was developed for low latency event stream recording arising in high
frequency trading applications, Real Time Bidding and general machine
learning.
Primary competing idea to compiler assisted reflection is the recently
developed purely template based introspection and reflection for C++
which is not yet available. While there are many related work based on
runtime approach, or templates most of them requiring some modification
to original code making it intrusive, or less performance oriented.
Maintenance and sponsor: the author, steven varga is to maintain the
h5cpp-compiler, and yes looking for sponsor
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