Re: [boost] Interest for a Fixed Point Arithmetics library

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest for a Fixed Point Arithmetics library
From: Julien Vernay (julienvernay99_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-01-01 13:25:54

It seems there is at least some people interested so I will propose it
finished for reviewing it :)

2018-01-01 13:41 GMT+01:00 Andrey Semashev via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
:

> On 01/01/18 15:27, Paul A. Bristow via Boost wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Andrey
>>> Semashev via Boost
>>> Sent: 31 December 2017 16:14
>>> To: boost_at_[hidden]
>>> Cc: Andrey Semashev
>>> Subject: Re: [boost] Interest for a Fixed Point Arithmetics library
>>>
>>> On December 31, 2017 6:50:01 PM "Paul A. Bristow via Boost"
>>> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> An implementation of fixed-point has been written (and is in real-life
>>>> use)
>>>> by Chris Kormanyos
>>>>
>>>> see https://github.com/BoostGSoC15/fixed_point/
>>>>
>>>> this uses a specified (fixed at compile-time) fixed-point format.  Big
>>>> formats are possible and it works seamlessly with many
>>>> Boost.Math functions, often using constexpr for compile-time
>>>> computations).
>>>>
>>>> It did not receive much attention when tentatively proposed for Boost.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is this proposal stalled? I vaguely remember a fixed-point proposal but I
>>> don't remember the details.
>>>
>>> I'm interested in a fast compile-time configured fixed-point type as I
>>> had
>>> to write one for one project.
>>>
>>
>> It is working and in 'real-life' use 'in anger', and reasonably
>> documented with examples of usage.
>>
>> But nobody in Boost seemed to be at all interested, so it wasn't proposed
>> formally.
>>
>
> Well, I'm interested. :) Is there a chance it will be proposed?
>
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