Re: [boost] [xint] quick review

Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] quick review
From: Chad Nelson (chad.thecomfychair_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-14 11:27:55

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:15:06 +0000
"Phil Endecott" <spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>> I have yet to see any other objection to my focus on unlimited-size
>> integers for an unlimited-size integer library.
>
> That's odd, because my very first posts in this review focused on
> your code's unacceptably-poor performance for fixed-size integers.
> Here's what I wrote in my review:  "Performance of small and
> fixed-length integers is poor.  This could be resolved by storing
> fixed-length values on the stack, or by using some sort of small
> buffer optimisation."

I read that as an objection to the performance of the fixed-size
integers, not an objection to the library itself because it focused on
unlimited-size integers.
-- 
Chad Nelson
Oak Circle Software, Inc.
*
*
*