I have a bachelor's degree in physics, with the intention to go back to school and get a PhD someday. One thing I've had in mind for quite some time is to improve the state of high-energy physics software. Maybe it's improved since I was last in school, but when I did my senior thesis in 1993 the software I worked with was an awful mess. At the time I became convinced that bogus results were being published in the peer-reviewed journals because of undetected software bugs. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com crawford@goingware.com Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. "I give you this one rule of conduct. Do what you will, but speak out always. Be shunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared, be in doubt, but don't be gagged." -- John J. Chapman, "Make a Bonfire of Your Reputations" http://www.goingware.com/reputation/
Where is the appropriate place to suggest new features in a boost library? I guess it's here. My request is support for xml <!-- comments --> in the serialization xml archive. I believe it currently chokes if I add a comment in an xml archive. The application is for QA to compose test objects in xml and then read them into applications with boost serialization. It would be nice to annotate the test object 'templates' with comments so QA can know what values are valid. Does someone know where in the code I can implement this easily. I just want to ignore the comments. Russ Balest
"Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com> writes:
One thing I've had in mind for quite some time is to improve the state of high-energy physics software. Maybe it's improved since I was last in school, but when I did my senior thesis in 1993 the software I worked with was an awful mess.
At the time I became convinced that bogus results were being published in the peer-reviewed journals because of undetected software bugs.
Probably so. I suggest you look at Walter Landry, *Implementing a High Performance Tensor Library*, Second Workshop on C++ Template Programming, 2001. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/landry01implementing.html -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
"Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com> writes:
One thing I've had in mind for quite some time is to improve the state of high-energy physics software. Maybe it's improved since I was last in school, but when I did my senior thesis in 1993 the software I worked with was an awful mess.
At the time I became convinced that bogus results were being published in the peer-reviewed journals because of undetected software bugs.
Probably so. I suggest you look at
Walter Landry, *Implementing a High Performance Tensor Library*, Second Workshop on C++ Template Programming, 2001. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/landry01implementing.html
There is a updated version at http://www.oonumerics.org/FTensor/FTensor.pdf It has more current information about compilers. Cheers, Walter Landry wlandry@ucsd.edu
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