RE: [boost] Re: Boost Array Initialization Technique

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-06 11:18:38

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Neal Becker
| Sent: 01 June 2005 13:34
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: [boost] Re: Boost Array Initialization Technique
| 
| Loïc Joly wrote:
| 
| 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.
| 
| This is a serious defect in the current std::complex, IMHO.

I agree - but that NOT initialising should be the exception

- so there needs to be a way of saying
"I really don't want this to be initialised".

Paul

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