Re: [boost] [Review] Quantitative units - compile time vs runtime

From: Noah Roberts (roberts.noah_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-28 15:45:09

Steven Watanabe wrote:

> I may be wrong, but in order to avoid any excess loss
> of precision you have to store a set of all the base
> units and track the actual unit at runtime involving
> a merge with every multiplyor divide.  This kind of
> overhead is not always acceptable.

I don't understand what you are saying.

> 
>> At any rate, there are ways to solve the whole thing regardless.  The 
>> question is, what is the use of a library that only does static 
>> conversions.
> 
> As has been stated many times conversions are not
> the primary point of the library.

I've never seen that stated.  I don't believe it either.  If conversions 
are not the point of the library than why is a very significant portion 
of the library dealing with units and conversions?