[Boost-users] [date time] performant?

From: John McMahon (john_gg_mcmahon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-14 14:02:54

Hi, I've been browsing the online documentation for the date time library, 
which is a model of good documentation (unlike boost::test, for example) and 
it looks pretty well designed.  I wanted to know if there have been any 
discussions or benchmarks of how efficient it is?  Do people have any 
general comments on this?

Some background: I've been looking at quantlib (www.quantlib.org) - a c++ 
library which performs financial valuation calculations, and whilst they use 
boost, they have chosen to write their own Date and Calendar classes.

Dates, holiday calendars, period calculations, etc, are commonly used in 
finanial calculations and a performant library generally would add great 
value.

thanks in advance,
John McMahon