Re: [boost] Accumulators review

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-31 15:56:25

On Jan 31, 2007, at 10:26 AM, John Maddock wrote:

> Paul A Bristow wrote:
>> PS and about your torture test - I don't think this should be the
>> focus of the review.
>>
>> There are horses for courses, and the not-always-accurate version
>> should be fine for most applications. (If the data are going to be as
>> unreasonable as the torture data are, one could argue that they are
>> wrong!
>
> In case it wasn't clear from my post, I actually agree with this.  The
> library can be extended to more/better algorithms at a later date  
> anyway,
> the important thing at this stage is the framework.
>
> What is important though is documentation: most people would miss  
> the suble
> difference between the "immediate" and "naive" variance  
> calculations, and
> potentially (although very rairly) fall into all kinds of hard-to-spot
> traps.

It might be useful to have variance(accurate) as an alternative, or  
just to allow the accurate option to all features.

Matthias