Re: [boost] [xint] quick review

Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] quick review
From: Stewart, Robert (Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-14 11:30:20

Chad Nelson wrote:
> "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.

That's how it appears to me.

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