On 06.03.2011 05:23, Chad Nelson wrote:
I believe that arbitrary precision arithmetic library is very useful. But I don't think that in it's current status XInt is appropriate for boost.
After your reply I changes my mind. As I see you had considered all my suggestions long before I posted them. If they really lead to unavoidable performance penalty I think current implementation is a good trade-off. I vote for inclusion XInt into boost.
One more thought about "secure" option. There are no standard containers with this option. I think either both standard containers and integer_t should have such option or both shouldn't have. This is yet another argument for container parametrization.
I'm not sure I understand your argument. Are you saying that because there are no standard containers with a zero-memory-before-releasing option, that the library shouldn't provide one either?
Yes. Why integer_t should be an exception?