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