On 4 June 2010 09:10, Chad Nelson <chad.thecomfychair@gmail.com> wrote:
On the minus side, it looks like every function will have to be a template, which is something that I tried very hard to avoid in previous implementations. It'll be fast, but if a program uses more than one combination of options, the size will increase greatly. The saving grace, I suppose, is that there shouldn't be much need to use too many option combinations.
Would it not be possible to still keep the math parts in (internal) non-templated functions? It feels like the duplication should mostly be in the interface parts. For instance, a single addition function could take 2 ranges of pointers and perform all the addition logic independently of the template parameters. Then the various templates would arrange the storage properly, call the function, and translate any errors appropriately (not that there'd be any errors for addition, though I suppose there might be a carry).