[phobos] Tango and the new time lib

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Thu Apr 29 08:40:05 PDT 2010


Boost thread uses a different, lightweight class to represent  
timespans. I'd like to use something similar in druntime then as well.

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On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:36 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com>  
wrote:

> I know people who swear by Boost.Date_Time. I think starting from it  
> is a great idea.
>
> Andrei
>
> On 04/29/2010 09:24 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>
>> Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
>>> The Boost.Date_Time library seems like a good starting point.
>>>
>>> We could port all or parts of it to D without having to worry about
>>> licence issues, and it seems to contain all we need and more. Does
>>> anyone have any experience using it?
>>>
>>
>> I have no experience with it, though C++ Boost libraries tend to be  
>> of
>> unusually high quality. The compatible license also makes them ideal
>> candidates for conversion to D.
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