Re: [Quantlib-dev] Poll: Remove support for sessionId()

[Peter C. <pca...@gm...>]

Hi

friendly reminder / am I right in interpreting the silence as consent?

Thanks
Peter

On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 09:55, Peter Caspers <pca...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> When QuantLib is built with enabled QL_ENABLE_SESSIONS, users have to
> provide an implementation of sessionId(). Usually the sessions are
> used to enable thread-local singleton instances and consequently
> sessionId() will be implemented such that the current thread id is
> returned. More recent versions of QuantLib require C++11 as the
> minimum language standard and with that we are able to simplify the
> singleton implementation while always ensuring a thread-safe
> initialization of singleton instances. The proposed change is this
>
> https://github.com/lballabio/QuantLib/pull/1377
>
> and comes with a removal of the sessionId() and a hard-wired
> assumption that there is a 1:1 relation between sessions and threads.
> The question for you is whether there are other uses of sessions out
> there which wouldn't be supported after the above change, i.e. where
> you use sessions differently from what I described above.
>
> Thanks
> Peter