Configuration API in IPP

[ligoban]

Is there in theIPP any standart APIthat allowsworking with configuration files .conf?

If not - It's worthadding.

[Vladimir_Dudnik]

Sorry, what do you mean exactly?

[ligoban]

I mean structures and functions that allow to work (read and save) configuration files such structured:

[header_1]

property_1 = value

property_2 = value

property_n = value

[header_n]

and so on.

[Vladimir_Dudnik]

Are you suggesting file input/output operations? What benefits you can see from wrapping fread or ReadFile into IPP? Do you expect any performance increase because of that? Remember, we keep IPP free from system calls to provide cross-platformness.

You probably can find it useful to take a look on IPP string processing functions, please see IPP signal processing manual, Chapter 11 String Functions.

Vladimir

[ligoban]

I meant that it is sometimes useful to create a configuration file to an application. So, it could be much easier to use this not very suffisticatedfunctionality from theone library than to write it ourselves or to look for it among other applications. I think from this point of view such operations (not only input/output but parsing of the config. files) couild increase the perfomance of an application.

[Vladimir_Dudnik]

To be honest, we are considering as a target apllications for IPP optimization those which spend 90% of their time doing something really computationally complex, something like signal or image processing, media compression and so on rather then those which spend this time parsing config files.

Vladimir