Re: Decimal: Formal review begins

From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-01-20 22:20:46

On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM Christian Mazakas  wrote:

> If you actually sit down and look at how long Intel's DFP library has been
> around, it seems like version 1.0 came out in 2009.
>
> That gives the library a literal 16 years of a head start here.
>
>
Just one note about that: The  performance won't have changed much since
2009. i.e. The few releases since have been minor fixes:
https://www.netlib.org/misc/intel/README.txt

My personal experience started after 2015 so I wouldn't know if the two
releases in 2011 had some surprise performance improvements that were
undocumented.

>  But we should also remind ourselves that
> we're also reviewing the author as well. The question comes down to: do we
> trust that Matt and Christopher are going to iterate on the implementation?
>
> Personally, I'd say that I trust Matt because I've conversed with him in
> the past. So that's at least half the battle right there.
>
>
For the record, I hope nothing I've said gives anyone the impression that I
don't trust Matt or Christopher.

>
> To me, Boost review has boiled down to vibes. Do we trust the vibes that
> Boost is better off with this library and do we trust that the authors are
> going to stick around and evolve the library?
>
> In my view, this library solves problems people would want Boost to solve
> so I'd say I give a recommendation to ACCEPT this library.
>
>
 I am also out of touch with all the vibes these days. :)

Glen