[boost] Re: Re: Adding Loki to Boost (reprise)

From: Andrei Alexandrescu (andrewalex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-14 12:58:11

"Paul Mensonides" <pmenso57_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:000f01c1e3d8$57209a00$7772e50c_at_c161550a...
> > How about DerivedToFront, could someone post an MPL implementation
of
> > it? Here I am pretty sure that MPL will at least have a
compilation
> > speed advantage , because Loki's algorithm is terribly
inefficient. I
> > should have used mergesort but... deadline pressure. Nobody
complained
> > so far :o).
>
> Hey Andrei, the current version of Loki that I got from
moderncppdesign.com has
> a huge error--DerivedToFront doesn't recurse at all:
[snip]

That is true, thank you; the problem was spotted I had put the
correction in sourceforge only. Kevin Cline sent me a fix.

The problem is that the website still links to AWL's site for getting
the zip file, and changing that is not easy. I will give up that, and
provide a zip off my website only.

Andrei