Re: quantlib spreadsheet integration

Posted by Dirk Eddelbuettel on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/quantlib-spreadsheet-integration-tp2880p2885.html

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:00:11AM +0100, erik wrote:

> 100% agreed... but I wouldn't list convenience of
> implementation/debugging as top priorities.  At this point I'm only
> committing to do a prototype but I'd like to design something which at
> least has the potential to evolve into an industrial strength desktop
> spreadsheet pricer.  My main arguments in favor of Openoffice over
> Gnumeric would be:
> - Design and performance - with an OpenOffice C++ Addin you write
> classes which are derived directly from the classes used to build OO
> itself, and your code goes into a lib which OO loads dynamically at
> runtime.  I've done no benchmarking but intuition tells me this design
> is faster and cleaner than Quantlib<->Python<->Gnumeric.

Sure, but you get the same with directly loadable C plugins for Gnumeric, so
this would be a draw.  From a practical standpoint, it may be easier to mix
C and C++ (i.e. call the QL C++ code via '#extern "C"' mechanism, which I
what I do to get QL into the R environment) than mixing two distinct C++
beasts. I may well be wrong here.

> - OpenOffice (and StarOffice) has a larger potential userbase, as it
> runs on Linux/Unix/Mac/Windows as opposed to just Gnu

Gnumeric is said to be available on windoze "soon".  Any timelines, Jody?

Cheers, Dirk

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