Re: [boost] [operators] A modern SFINAE-based version of boost::operators?

Daniel Frey wrote:

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On 15. Nov 2017, at 17:05, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:

For those interested, here's a test program with which you can play. The results are, respectively, 0+1, 3+0, 0+3, 0+3, 0+0.

Nice, thanks for that. But the 0+0 is slightly misleading, as you don't copy the value with a copy-ctor, but you initialise a new value directly - this should count as well, especially thinking of cases like a matrix-like class with, say, an array of NxM elements as a direct member.

True, it does not count the constructions. These are 4 for the += based variations and 7 for the plain op+. It's all slightly misleading anyway, because for the small matrix case the copy/move constructors don't actually have side effects and therefore get optimized out; they are only relevant in the case of something like std::string where copy/move aren't defaulted. Also, the results for T t1(1), t2(2), t3(3), t4(4); T t = t1 + t2 + t3 + t4; are slightly different. 4+1+1, 4+3+0, 4+1+2, 4+1+3, 7+0+0.