Re: [boost] [xint] Question about suitability, portability, and "Boostiness"

Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] Question about suitability, portability, and "Boostiness"
From: Chad Nelson (chad.thecomfychair_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-14 18:42:09

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On 04/14/2010 12:11 PM, DE wrote:

>> - a wrapping template class(es) that can be configured with policies whether to
>> use/work with fixed sized buffers/numbers (thus no memory allocation, thus no
>> exception handling code, thus maximally lean code) or dynamically sized buffers
>> (with or without SBOs, deep or shallow copies, reference counting etc etc...)...
> 
> and a policy regulating whether to use ordinary arithmetic or modulo
> one would be vital
> e.g. a natural expectation is that a fixed 128 bit integer does
> modulo (2^128) arithmetic

I'm not sure what "normal arithmetic" means for a fixed-size integer.
Are you referring to using an unlimited-size integer for intermediate
results?
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Chad Nelson
Oak Circle Software, Inc.
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