Next Week is BoostCon Week!
Finally, the long wait and the preparations for BoostCon 2010 are over. The last weeks were dominated by writing the code and creating the slides for our talk ‘A Framework for RAD Spirit‘. Regular...
View ArticleA Framework for RAD Spirit
Finally, yesterday was the day! Joel and I presented the current status of our work related to the ‘Writing a Compiler’ effort. We submitted this talk to BoostCon 2010 and got accepted back in January....
View ArticleUsing Spirit V2: Qi and Karma
Michael Caisse (of Object Modeling Designs), some of you will know him from the Freenode #boost IRC channel, presented his talk about Spirit at BoostCon 2010 last Tuesday. I personally very much like...
View ArticleMulti-threaded Qi: 6 hours -> 37 seconds
The Spirit mailing list is still the place where active discussion takes place. I will be posting some excerpts from the mailing list here every once in a while. Here’s an interesting post from Leo...
View ArticleParsing Escaped String Input Using Spirit.Qi
Jeroen Habraken (a.k.a VeXocide) sent an article about parsing escaped strings using Qi, which we happily publish for everybody to read. Thanks Jeroen! Continue reading here.
View ArticleUsing Boost.Spirit V2: Qi and Karma
These are links to the slides and video of Michael Caisse’s BoostCon 2010 talk: slides: <http://www.objectmodelingdesigns.com/boostcon10/> video: <http://blip.tv/file/4143337 > Enjoy!...
View ArticleAttribute Propagation and Attribute Compatibility
Narinder Claire asked a seemingly innocent question on the Spirit mailing list the other day. After starting to write an answer I realized that this question is not innocent at all as it touches the...
View ArticleUsing _val in Top Level Semantic Actions
Frank Dellaert was asking a valid question on the Spirit mailing list where he pointed out some things he was not able to understand. His question clearly uncovered an inconsistency in Spirit’s API....
View ArticleSpirit V2.5 has been released!
Spirit V2.5 is now available as part of the recently released Boost V1.47. I suggest you look at the What’s New documentation page for a list of things changed. This is a very important release for...
View ArticleHow to Optimize Qi
Mike Lewis posted a marvelous experience report dubbed ‘Optimizing Boost Spirit – Blazing fast AST generation using boost::spirit’. He describes how he took an old compiler for the Epoch programming...
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