Re: [boost] Relational Template Library

From: Calum Grant (calum_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-11 13:55:07

> BTW, the file you provided is very interesting.  I played 
> with it yesturday, but so far my results are pretty slow (no 
> wonder -- I have to consider more than 400,000,000 possible 
> combinations).  One of possible reasons is the lack of 
> co-processor on my PC (quite a bit of math is done), but I 
> also found some RTL inefficiencies (as I said, we haven't 
> spend a lot of time on the optimization yet).  I will do some 
> more research and then provide the results.  Will probably 
> take a few days to a week.

You could instead sort on the square of the distance - saving you one
square root per iteration, and since you don't need square root, you can
just work with integers.  I'm just intrigued how you are going to fit
400,000,000 items into an index in memory!!

Cheers, Calum