Vc VS conan-center-index

Most high-performance math libraries perform a lot of vectorization (Eigen, etc) under the hood. And you've got stuff like Klein, Vc (which is reminiscent of std::valarray), etc. Then there's OpenMP's #pragma omp simd (assuming version 4.0 or greater).

I personally like the ideas in Parallelism v2 TS, which is available in for libstdc++ 11 onwards. The reference implementation is a library named Vc (afaik Vc is the most popular SIMD library for C++), and this has also been implemented in recent versions of HPX.

First of all about our project, I previously decided to work with VC library.https://github.com/VcDevel/Vc

I've decided to switch to something better, and after a few hours of searching, I found this repository: NSIMD https://github.com/agenium-scale/nsimd FastDifferentialCoding https://github.com/lemire/FastDifferentialCoding VS https://github.com/VcDevel/Vc XSIMD https://github.com/xtensor-stack/xsimd

> - Waiting for Cross-Platform standardized SIMD vector datatypes

which language has standardized SIMD vector datatypes ? most languages don't even have any ability to express SIMD while in C++ I can just use Vc (https://github.com/VcDevel/Vc), nsimd (https://github.com/agenium-scale/nsimd) or one of the other ton of alternatives, and have stuff that JustWorksTM on more architectures than most languages even support

- Using nonstandard extensions, libraries or home-baked solutions to run computations in parallel on many cores or on different processors than the CPU

what are the other native languages with a standardized memory model for atomics ? and, what's the problem with using libraries ? it's not like you're going to use C# or Java's built-in threadpools if you are doing any serious work, no ? Do they even have something as easy to use as https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow ?

- Debugging cross-platform code using couts, cerrs and printfs

because people never use console.log in JS or System.println in C# maybe ?

- Forced to use boost for even quite elementary operations on std::strings.

can you point to non-trivial java projects that do not use Apache Commons ? Also, the boost string algorithms are header-only so you will end up with exactly the same binaries that if it was in some std::string_algorithms namespace:

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/43vKadbde

Conan is a package manager for C/C++. See: https://conan.io/.

The way it works is that you can provide "recipes", which are Python scripts, that automate the process of collecting source code (usually from a remote Git repository, or a remote source tarball), patching it, making its dependencies and transitive dependencies available, building for specific platform and architecture (via any number of build systems), then packaging up and serving binaries. There's a lot of complexity involved.

Here are the two recipes I mentioned:

libcurl: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/blob/master/r...

OpenSSL v3: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/blob/master/r...

Now, for the sake of this thread I want to highlight three things here:

- Conan recipes are usually made by people unaffiliated with the libraries they're packaging;

- The recipes are fully Turing-complete, do a lot of work, have their own bugs - therefore they should really be treated as software comonents themselves, for the purpose of OSS clearing/supply chain verification, except as far as I know, nobody does it;

- The recipes can, and do, patch source code and build scripts. There's supporting infrastruture for this built into Conan, and of course one can also do it by brute-force search and replace. See e.g. ZLib recipe that does it both at the same time:

https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/blob/7b0ac710... -- `_patch_sources` does both direct search-and-replace in source files, and applies the patches from https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/tree/master/r....

Now, good luck keeping track of what's going on there.

https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index there's 200+ PR that need reviewing :) we add community reviewers fairly often

As for ffmpeg it was last updated 10 days ago https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/commits/master/recipes/ffmpeg/all :)

Indeed others in your situation have chosen to remain a bit longer on Conan 1.x - rest assured, every single pull request in Conan Center still requires full compatibility with Conan 1.x. u/miss_minutes, I'm surprised to hear that downgrading to the latest stable 1.x version has caused issues for you. I'd be very interested in learning about this so that we can help, please feel free to open an issue in GitHub with more details at https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/issues/new/choose, and tag me @jcar87, and we'll gladly look into this.

https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index if you want to contribute migration of that recipes that would be amazing

This is a more complicated recipe https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/blob/master/recipes/pcapplusplus/all/conanfile.py

It's available in Conan too https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/tree/master/recipes/crowcpp-crow though it's not well maintained so no promises if it's working

This post on github contains a list of packages supported by conan 2.0, its also kept up to date https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/discussions/16196

2) Go to https://conan.io/center/ and search for nlohmann, click the first hit.

I hope CMake and conan continue to be adopted by more CPP developers. But the future will tell.