Somewhere in the E.U., le 22/10/2004 Bonjour In article <cl62lb$3r3$1@sea.gmane.org>, "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> wrote:
Hi Paul,
"Paul A Bristow" <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> wrote in message news:E1CKELE-0006rT-8N@he204war.uk.vianw.net... | Sadly I was not able to attend The Redmond meeting to present proposals | myself,
Yeah, those who actually had implemented tr1 math functions was saying it was simply too hard to implement.
You bet it's hard! *And* it takes time...
| I find this response rather baffling considering the importance of these | functions for even the most basic statistics.
FWIW, I agree with that and mentioned that at the meeting.
| So I am now asking for your views on if it is worth producing a Boost | library version based on the existing Cephes implementation by Steven | Moshier who has kindly agreed to make it available under the Boost licence | terms.
I would be *very* interested in that since I need something to be able to move on with boost.stat
As I have said before, yes, indeed, we do need a (boost) statistics library. If basing it on Cephes is the easiest path to get such a beast, then by all means let's use it! At any rate, this does not preclude modifications based on whatever input you can get (including of course what you can get here).
| I am sure you will understand I would not want to put a lot of effort into | this, only to have it rejected by Boosters. | | Please let me have your views on if and how to progress this topic.
Perhaps post a here a detailed overview of the task (what functions, their dependencies, a rough idea of how to implement them, already identified tough points...).
I would of course vote strongly in favor of such a library. So please go forward with the idea about wrapping a implementation with a boost licence.
Once we have it in boost, I can start doing stuff in boost.stat. I hope this can be made into a standard proposal, which might then provide additional reason for the math functions to be in the standard.
best regards
Thorsten
Agreed! Hubert Holin