5 Nov 2008 08:29
resource subsumption
A problem arose some time ago, that some library code required async support (flx_arun driver), and some needed SDL support (flx_sdl_run driver), and some needed both (say, flx_sdl_arun driver). The problem is of course that ordinary code needing async support can't know other code needed SDL support .. but there is no way with a "target" based resource tree that two independent resources requirements can be satisfied by one entity. A related example: some code need library A, other code library B, and A and B require each other. You'd like to make library A+B to avoid dynamic linkage overheads on calls between these libraries (indeed you may get inlining of some calls). But whilst a simple requires clause can expand to multiple requirements (virtual targets), there's no way to *combine* requirements: Library A+B satisfies the need for both A and for B. This is also what we need for the first case: a driver that supports both async and SDL. A solution is to add a field:(Continue reading)
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