Re: [boost] [fusion] matrix?

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-09 04:40:53

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:873bb4eg6y.fsf_at_pereiro.peloton...
> "Andy Little" <andy_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> So all in all I reckon Boost.Fusion is quite cool :-). Of course it is 
>> probably
>> not as good performance wise,
>
> I don't know why you say "of course."  Just as STL iteration can be
> faster than a hand-coded loop, in MPL we did several things that can
> make it quite a bit faster to use the high-level abstractions than to
> do the naive hand-coded version.  The same thing could be true of Fusion.

Looking at the assembler output from my quan::fusion::dot_product function when 
optimised in VC8, it looks like the optimisation is near perfect FWIW.

I love fusion !

regards
Andy Little