[boost] Re: Boost Integer Library

From: Valentin Bonnard (Bonnard.V_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-08-19 08:30:15

Reid Sweatman wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean exactly ?
> >
> > The following ?
> >
> > class foo
> > {public:
> >    foo (bool initialise) { if (initialise) value = 0; }
> > };
> 
> Well, something more like:
> 
>         class foo {
>         public:
>                 foo(bool initialise = false) { if(initialize) Initialize();
> }
>         };

OK

As such it will take more time to do the test 
than tp initialise four chars to 0. (I mean 
way more time on modern processors.)

> I admit, I may be unclear on what's being initialized here:  the iterator
> itself, or the container, since I've lost some thread continuity. 

We where talking about bin32, bin24, bin16, and bin8 
defined in bin_ubin.hpp (see the subject line).

-- 
Valentin Bonnard