Re: [Boost-users] functions, symbolic derivation

From: Joel FALCOU (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-04 14:55:24

> Thank you. I will read the docs. It seems Boost::proto will do the
> derivation for me,
> while I still have to write the AST myself.
> This AST, isn't there already some boost implementation of it somewhere?
> After all, writing symbolic mathematical functions would seem to me 
> something many users require.
Well, that's proto works too.
Given a grammar and a set of terminals, it'll give you compile-time 
access to the AST and to a large selection of operations on it.

> Performance is first factor for the code I am writing, so I am trying to run
> as much as possible at compile-time, as a matter of principle.
> But I guess making a function object out of the AST will be cheap.
> I will now move the literals from the compile-time to the run-time world,
> and will get all numeric types then.

Should be more than enough IMHO

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Joel FALCOU
Research Engineer @ Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale
Université PARIS SUD XI
France