-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 03:39 AM, Vicente Botet Escriba wrote:
flag_negative isn't stored in data_t because if it were, I'd have to make a deep copy of every number when I only want to make it negative for a temporary calculation.
Maybe a DSEL could help in this case.
A domain-specific embedded language? I don't know anything about such programming, but from what I've been able to find, it sounds like a heck of a lot of work for very little benefit.
flag_fixedlength isn't stored in data_t because that would defeat the purpose of it, which is to identify a fixed_integer to the allocation functions when no data_t has been allocated for it yet.
Maybe this can be stored on fixed interger then?
How? fixed_integer doesn't handle its own allocation, it relies on base_integer to do that.
flag_readonly isn't stored in data_t because I'd have to store yet another variable there to handle it, which would be inefficient because I had plenty of room in this really handy flag variable that I already had to have in base_integer anyway.
Maybe a DSEL could help in this case. Could you say more when and how this readonly flag is used?
See base_integer.cpp, function base_integer::_is_fixed.
I'm afraid. I was also tired and should go to sleep before. I should just request you to explain the rationale behind that. [...]
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