From: boost (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-25 08:41:42


Salut,

On Wednesday 25 April 2001 11:57, you wrote:
> Peter Schmitteckert said he still hadn't found the interval
> library files, so here's a URL.
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/interval/
Thanks, I've already downloaded it.

>
> To address some of the concerns about performance...
[...]
> If compilers understood intervals, they could probably interleave
> the extra computations amongst the rest of the program and
> eliminate the overhead from all but the most FP-intense code.

Wouldn't it be something for the boost/Matrix (MTL-BLAIS) code.
Could one optimize the matrix< intervall<..> > BLAS operations,
so that one won't have much performance loss, preferably with
the option to use an exact scalar product to increase accuracy?

Best wishes
Peter