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

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-24 14:00:55

From: "Greg Colvin" <gcolvin_at_[hidden]>
> From: Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]>
> > float const pi_f = math::pi;
>
> I think on Noah's system this will result in the value in double const pi
> being converted, slowly, at runtime.

Once, at startup. If this is really a problem, we can (and probably should)
add pi_f (and pi_l) to math:: as well.

The question is, what is the value of providing a generic framework that can
handle types that we don't know about.

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Peter Dimov
Multi Media Ltd.