Re: [boost] Review request: extended complex number library

Subject: Re: [boost] Review request: extended complex number library
From: Ronald Garcia (rxg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-06 15:06:54

Hello Matthieu,

I have received your request and will add it to the review schedule.

Best,
Ron

On Mar 5, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Matthieu Schaller wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Following the comments from V. Escriba, I formally propose my complex number library for review.
> The library is an extension of the std::complex class addressing two issues:
> - The standard does not guaranty the behaviour of the complex class if instantiated with types other than float/double/long double.
> - Some calculation where pure imaginary numbers (i.e. multiples of sqrt(-1)) appear are unnecessarily slowed down due to the lack of support for these numbers.
> The code I submit contains two interleaved classes boost::complex and boost::imaginary which can be instantiated with any type T provided T overloads the usual arithmetic operators and some basic (real) mathematical functions depending on which complex function will be used.  It is thus an extended version of Thorsten Ottosen's n1869 proposal (http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2005/n1869.html)
> 
> Performance tests show some non-negligible speed-ups compared to std::complex for calculations where pure imaginary numbers are involved. A speed-up of 25% has been observed when solving the Schroedinger equation explicitly on a regular mesh and some comparable figures can be observed when computing the Mandelbrot set (the two examples snippets provided in the archive).
> Furthermore, the functions (sin(), exp(), log(),...) involving boost::imaginary numbers are more precise than their equivalent using a std::complex with the real part set to 0.
> 
> The code and (doxygen) documentation is available in the repository http://code.google.com/p/cpp-imaginary-numbers/
> A comprehensive zip archive can be found in the "download" and the code can also be checked-out via the SVN repository.
> The archive contains the class header, two examples, a comprehensive precision test, a brute-force performance test and the documentation.
> 
> I'd be happy to answer any question from your side and to provide more detailed information if required.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthieu
> -- 
> Matthieu Schaller
> PhD student - Durham University
> 
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