Re: [boost] Re: Re: Physical quantities

From: Kevin Lynch (krlynch_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-13 11:31:46

Matthias Schabel wrote:
> 
> A demonstrative code snippet of what you would like to be able to do  
> would be really helpful...
> 

See my other post to Andy Little for a little snippet (bad pun 
unintended) .... and I'll try to come up with something better.  I just 
don't happen have anything lying around that will be trivial to update.

>> My code is either done running in less time that it takes to compile  
>> (short code that would only benefit from nearly zero compile time  
>> overhead) or already runs for hundreds of hours (and hence would want  
>> a zero runtime overhead, a far more important constraint for those  
>> applications where I would consider using the units framework).
> 
> 
> This is spanning the spectrum.  

I realize that.  In practice, in the very short one-offs, I probably 
wouldn't bother.  In the code that runs seemingly forever, I would be 
willing to give up lots of compile time (of course, faster would be 
better :-)  to catch errors that would cost me days or weeks of wasted 
computation.....

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