[Openframeworkwg] provider independence

[Christoph Lameter]

Well yes look at the slides that I send out. You can run the layer that
multiplexes multiple providers but then there will be no inlining. Provide
code is in a shared library that can separately be upgraded.



On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Bernard Metzler <BMT at zurich.ibm.com>wrote:

>
> >
> > I think we all agree on these. However, on (3): If my app wants to
> > use inlining provided by the provider then changes to the provider
> > code would require recompilation.
> >
> >
> Yes, inlining triggered my concerns regarding (3).
> That is going to be optional...right? If one ships an RDMA enabled
> data base installation not every network driver update will
> necessarily trigger rebuilding everything at customer side...
>
> Thanks,
> Bernard.
>
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Bernard Metzler <BMT at zurich.ibm.com>
> wrote:
> > ...at another level of granularity and hopefully not
> > to much off-topic.
> >
> > Are we all agree on the following requirements
> > for the upcoming interface:
> >
> > (1) must be provider agnostic (well, some providers may only
> >     implement a subset of functionality, but that is managed
> >     in a generic way),
> > (2) multiple providers can be used from one application
> >     in parallel,
> > (3) changes to provider code does not enforce recompilation
> >     of the application.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bernard.
> >
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