Re: [boost] Removing auto_ptr/etc. from Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] Removing auto_ptr/etc. from Boost
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-19 15:55:58

AMDG

On 03/19/2015 01:33 PM, Stephan T. Lavavej wrote:
> [STL]
>> (mt19937 is awesome, but at 5 KB I'd be slightly nervous about making it thread_local.)
> 
> [Steven Watanabe]
>> boost::mt19937 is only 2.5 KB.
> 
> Thanks - I see where the factor of 2 is coming from, although it'll need a bit more thought to untangle. I've filed a bug in our internal database.
> 

  It's quite painful.  If you update the entire
buffer in a single pass, you need to invert
the state transition function to implement
streaming correctly.  libc++ only updates
a single element at a time, which is noticeably
slower, and last time I checked libstdc++, its
output format was wrong.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe