[Opm] Dependencies revisited

[Markus Blatt]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:36:47AM +0100, Joakim Hove wrote:
> Another recurring issue is Boost. If we jump to Debian Buster and Ubuntu
> > 19.04, this entails that we can bump minimum version of GCC to 8.3.0. Is
> > this sufficient to consider removing Boost as a dependency?
> >
> 
> The parser uses boost spirit::qi which at some stage proved to give a
> performance gain for plain parsing of numerical input, i.e. "3.14" -> 3.14.
> It is simple to replace with std varieties, but there might be a
> performance hit.

If recall correctly, the flexible solver framework / CPR uses boot property tree
for the parameters read from the config files. So boost usage has increased quite
a bit lately.

Markus

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