Re: [Quantlib-users] quantlib ext::shared_ptr safety

[Jerry J. <jer...@gm...>]

Hi Jonathan

Your information is very helpful, thanks a lot!

Regards
Jerry

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 8:34 PM Jonathan Sweemer <sw...@gm...> wrote:
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> Hi Jerry,
>
> Did you know that QuantLib is already exposed to several scripting languages through SWIG? You can download the latest version here: https://github.com/lballabio/QuantLib-SWIG
>
> In terms of safety, the main thing to worry about when wrapping QuantLib in a scripting language is the garbage collector accessing objects from different threads. You can read more about it at [1] and also use one or more of the available CMake variables [2] to compile in a more or less thread safe manner.
>
> [1] https://www.quantlib.org/slides/qlws13/spanderen.pdf
> [2] https://github.com/lballabio/QuantLib/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L49
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 1:01 PM Jerry Jin <jer...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm not a c++ savvy, I mostly just use existing classes from quantlib
>> and call it's method to get results.
>>
>> I'm thinking to use script language to generate c++ source file to
>> construct quantlib objects and wrap them in ext::shared_ptr, call it's
>> method and return the result in xml or json format, this would create
>> native program, I'm a bit worried if it's safe.
>>
>> Is this feasible at all? Thank you!
>>
>> Regards
>> Jerry
>>
>>
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