RE: [boost] Standardization of quaternion, octonion, and special function libs?

From: Powell, Gary (powellg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-24 13:34:51

Don't forget the game industry. Turns out quaternion's are used by
people who do 3D game engines. They would like/use this library.

The only question I have is whether the current library should use
expression templates to help the compiler eliminate temporaries. I
suppose a well written specification wouldn't preclude that as the
implementation.

  -Gary-

PS
 Very few game programmers seem to know about boost yet, but that is
changing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Beman Dawes [mailto:bdawes_at_[hidden]] 
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 8:47 AM
To: boost_at_[hidden]; boost_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [boost] Standardization of quaternion, octonion, and
special function libs?

At 10:14 AM 5/24/2002, Toon Knapen wrote:

 >Thus the commitee should, when deciding upon supporting features which

are
 >not purely in the software-engineering domain, not take the number of
>current  >users of the specific feature into account but the number of
people that  >actually need that functionality.

The committee, unless it gets input from numerics experts, doesn't have
any 
way of knowing how many people need the functionality.

That's why, however imperfectly, some of us are trying to reach out and 
interest more numerics people in participating.

--Beman

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