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Design Decisions

Construction

Ctor or a factory?

• Factory: include of Factory doesn't pull all the build files (neglectable if HIBF is a libray)
• Factory: FPGA implementation could be done in a new factory

• Factory: More unintuitive to use

In general, the build process of the HIBF is very complex and thus using a factory might be justified.

HIBF API

See https://gist.github.com/smehringer/37719a556fb4872ea3087dc73c6a1778

Header-only or not?

Library: CMake, (static lib),

Header-only	Library ()
+ platform independent	// indirectyly platform independent because CMake would build and link for the user
+ easy if user doesn't user CMake	- hard to compile right if not using CMake
// if code has a lot of tempaltes or constexpr	+ compile time much lower, since lib is compiled once
	(+) clean separation of interface and implementation
	? What is a release
	? What about the FPGA HIBF lib design?

How it would look for the user:

find_package(hibf_lib)
target_link_libraries (FOO hibf::hibf)

This is the same for header-only or Library because the user does not have to link on his/her own