From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-06 06:46:07
Hi,
Not a full review of fusion, but just some (slightly confused...apologies)
thoughts. I started to look into fusion to try to understand what it is exactly.
I have an idea what it might be about so I decided to look in the examples
directory. Is there only one example? I am surprised. is that due to lack of
time? There also doesnt seem to be much in way of examples in the documentation.
Would it be possible to have a simple definition of what a view is, as it doesnt
seem to be defined anywhere, or is it? How expensive is it to construct a view
at runtime. Is it likely that the view is easy for the compiler to optimise (IOW
so that the actual code references the original sequence).
I am kind of interested in this library ( though unsure if it can help exactly
with my problems), I have a matrix which is in fact a tuple of tuples and I'm
wondering if fusion could help me in iterating over it. For example currently I
am writing out each co_factor function explicitly ( of which there are 16)
though I presume it would be possible to find the generic algorithm, so writing
one function:
// cofactor function of 3D homogeneous matrix
// constrained to cofactor(0,0) using enable_if
template<int R, int C>
typename boost::enable_if_c<
R == 0 && C ==0,
value_type
>::type
cofactor()const
{
value_type t
= ( this->at<1,1>()
* ( this->at<2,2>() * this->at<3,3>() - this->at<2,3>()
* this->at<3,2>())
- this->at<1,2>()
* ( this->at<2,1>() * this->at<3,3>() - this->at<2,3>()
* this->at<3,1>())
+ this->at<1,3>()
* ( this->at<2,1>() * this->at<3,2>() - this->at<2,2>()
* this->at<3,1>())
);
return t;
}
There probably isnt enough detail here to provide a solution to this particular
problem, but does it look like the sort of problem that fusion could help with?.
regards
Andy Little