[boost] Re: Boost Array Initialization Technique

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-01 11:13:32

christopher diggins <cdiggins_at_[hidden]> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Neal Becker" <ndbecker2_at_[hidden]>

>> I strongly disagree.  Forcing initialization makes code that is not useful
>> for high performance numerical processing.  When we declare a container of
>> 1000000 elements, we don't want to waste time initializing each, unless we
>> want to.
>
>
> I think the best solution in this case is to use an alternative "collection" 
> for numerical processing. Using a class intended as general purpose array 
> for numerical processing I think would not be a good idea.

...because...?

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