RE: [boost] Math constants for naive and gurus? - which constants do you want?

From: Paul A. Bristow (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-23 17:41:16

Thanks for this useful info.  MSVC 6 seems to inline release so far,
which is the crucial requirement.  (Others do as well - see Greg olven's
tests).

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Stein [mailto:noah_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 7:17 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: RE: [boost] Math constants for naive and gurus? - which
> constants do you want?
>
>
> In regards to MSVC's handling of template code, here's some of what I've
> found in my experience:
>
> * Debug and release versions are rather asymmetric in their performance.
> MSVC will not inline code in debug builds (well, it might with
> some tweaking
> of the project options).  For something recursive like Blitz's comma-list
> assignment, this can be quite a painful difference.
>
> * As others have pointed out, if a variable isn't used in a release build,
> it will almost definitely be optimized out completely.  For the template
> code I've written, MSVC optimizes well.
>
> * Don't trust the "inline" keyword in MSVC, it doesn't work as
> much as you'd
> think.  I wrote a vector-matrix library a year ago.  I liked the Blitz
> comma-list assignment, so I added one.  I looked at the release
> code for the
> matrix class, and it was what I expected: a list of immediate
> data stored in
> the variable.  The vector, however, did not inline its code.  Using
> "__forceinline" solved that problem.  I would suggest setting
> inline=__forceinline in your project's compilation setting.
>
> * MSVC really needs to support partial specialization.  Yeah,
> everyone knows
> it.  Everyone says it.  But I have to live with this headache
> every day, so
> I had to say it once, too.
>
>
> -- Noah
>
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