Re: [boost] [xint] quick review

Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] quick review
From: Domagoj Saric (domagoj.saric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-25 05:58:04

"Stewart, Robert" <Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:DF2E67F3D097004694C8428C70A3FD690A4FEA6C94_at_msgbal516.ds.susq.com...
> The difference is that Chad's focus on unlimited-size integers
> and implementing fixed-size integers on top of that base led
> to poor performance of fixed-size integrals, but doesn't necessarily
> mean that his unlimited-size integer implementation is inherently
> wrong.  As written, the library may not satisfy your needs for
> fixed-size integers, but that doesn't imply that it has "wrong internal
> design" for unlimited-size integers.

For some more "academic bike-shedding", this simply begs the question "is a 
design for/focused on unlimited-sized integers the right design for a Boost 
extended integer library"?

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