16 Jun
2012
16 Jun
'12
9:43 p.m.
On 6/15/2012 10:46 AM, John Maddock wrote:
I other words I'm suggesting that there is an inherent coupling between the data structure, and the "optimal" algorithm.
I haven't been following this discussion and I know nothing about multi-precision arithmetic, so this may be a wildly inappropriate observation, but ... ... in the STL, when there is a coupling between data structure and optimal algorithm, the coupling is broken by defining a base concept and a refinement of that concept, and dispatching to the optimal algorithm based on the concept modeled by the data structure. Back in my hole now, -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com