Robert Kawulak wrote:
I need help in determining the most common use cases of the library. Therefore I ask anybody who ever needed such a facility to write what exactly he needed it for, what were his expectations and requirements for functionality and efficiency.
My use case is fairly simple: I have a constrained, contiguous integer range and a second set of integers of the same size that are constrained but not contiguous. The latter set is a unique "geographical" descriptor for an element of a particle detector, where the integer carries human readable location information. The former is a corresponding "serial number" in a contiguous range (useful for making plots and addressing arrays). Some operations are efficient in one of these spaces and not the other, and since I will have many terabytes of data at the end of the day, it would be nice if operations were as efficient as bare integers, and conversions between these types need to be fast. Operations should be transparently integer like to the extent possible.
So is ++/-- operation actually more common than the others that it's worth it?
No
a possibility to select different out-of-bounds policies for both the bounds,
No.
- How often would people need this library to work with types other than integral or floating-point? What kind of types would it be (cheap/expensive to copy)?
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