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Subject: Re: [vtk-developers] vtkAtomic vs std::atomic, can we change yet?
From: Berk Geveci <berk.geveci () kitware ! com>
Date: 2017-10-03 16:40:07
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I would vote for dropping vtkAtomic and switching to std::atomic. Assuming
that the functionality of std::atomic is a superset of vtkAtomic's
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Robert Maynard <robert.maynard@kitware.com>
wrote:
> Are you asking about replacing just the
> Core/SMP/Sequential/vtkAtomic.cxx implementation or are you also
> interested in removing all the per SMP implementations?
>
> Using http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support we can see
> that std::atomic is fully supported across the range of compilers we
> need to support, so a conversion over to std::atomic would be allowed.
>
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Sean McBride <sean@rogue-research.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Now that C++11 is required in VTK, could vtkAtomic switch to using
> std::atomic instead of the current 3 implementations (gcc atomics, Apple
> atomics, or Windows atomics)? Or are our minimum required environments not
> ready for that?
> >
> > I ask because the APIs currently used in the macOS case are deprecated,
> and thus it would be best to stop using them...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > Sean McBride, B. Eng sean@rogue-research.com
> > Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
> > Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
> >
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<div dir="ltr">I would vote for dropping vtkAtomic and switching to std::atomic. \
Assuming that the functionality of std::atomic is a superset of \
vtkAtomic's</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, \
Oct 3, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Robert Maynard <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:robert.maynard@kitware.com" \
target="_blank">robert.maynard@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">Are you asking about replacing just the<br> \
Core/SMP/Sequential/vtkAtomic.<wbr>cxx implementation or are you also<br> interested \
in removing all the per SMP implementations?<br> <br>
Using <a href="http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support" rel="noreferrer" \
target="_blank">http://en.cppreference.com/w/<wbr>cpp/compiler_support</a> we can \
see<br> that std::atomic is fully supported across the range of compilers we<br>
need to support, so a conversion over to std::atomic would be allowed.<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Sean McBride <<a \
href="mailto:sean@rogue-research.com">sean@rogue-research.com</a>> wrote:<br> \
</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Hi all,<br> ><br>
> Now that C++11 is required in VTK, could vtkAtomic switch to using std::atomic \
instead of the current 3 implementations (gcc atomics, Apple atomics, or Windows \
atomics)? Or are our minimum required environments not ready for that?<br> ><br>
> I ask because the APIs currently used in the macOS case are deprecated, and thus \
it would be best to stop using them...<br> ><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> ______________________________<wbr>______________________________<br>
> Sean McBride, B. Eng <a \
href="mailto:sean@rogue-research.com">sean@rogue-research.com</a><br> > Rogue \
Research <a href="http://www.rogue-research.com" \
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.rogue-research.com</a><br> > Mac Software \
Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada<br> ><br>
><br>
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