Re: [text] Copyright notices

From: Hans Dembinski (hans.dembinski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-06-16 13:45:48

> On 16. Jun 2020, at 14:53, Niall Douglas via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> On 15/06/2020 17:19, Phil Endecott via Boost wrote:
> 
>> Are the only affected files the SIMD implementation, (c) Robert N
>> Steagall?  If so, can this be disabled (by default?) by the user
>> to avoid the copyright notice requirement?
> 
> If that's *the* Bob Steagall I'm almost certain he'll relicence his code
> under Boost if you ask him.

I think a multi-platform library like Boost should avoid using SIMD intrinsics and write the code so that the auto-vectorisers of the compilers understand it - if that is possible. I don't claim it is possible here, but I have a lot of trust in the auto-vectorisers of gcc and clang. Godbolt is very helpful in designing code that can be auto-vectorised well.

Best regards,
Hans