Re: [boost] [chrono/date] Performance goals and design summary

Subject: Re: [boost] [chrono/date] Performance goals and design summary
From: Rob Stewart (robertstewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-05 19:39:43

On May 5, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On May 5, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> One possibility (untested) would be to make calculate_year a namespace scope function with the following default implementation:
> 
>   year calculate_year(ymd_field_type ymd) {return ymd.year();}
> 
> So if the serial date will implicitly convert to ymd_filed_type, then you can say:
> 
>   if (ymdTargetDate.month() == calculate_month(date))
> 
> And if an implementation thinks they can do better than that then they can overload calculate_xxx(serial_type).  This is very analogous to how we currently handle swap.
> 
> Agreed it would be nice to find a better (shorter) name, but one hasn't immediately come to mind.

get_month?

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Rob

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