Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] Boost.XInt formal review
From: Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. (jhellrung_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-03 13:53:58
On 3/3/2011 6:57 AM, Chad Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:46:33 -0800
> "Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr."<jhellrung_at_[hidden]> wrote:
[...]
>> * http://www.oakcircle.com/xint_docs/threadsafe.html
>>
>> "When using copy_on_write, identical integer objects are allowed to
>> share storage, which is more efficient for both CPU power and
>> memory..."
>>
>> I'm (still) not sold that copy-on-write gives any noticeable
>> performance benefits in this library over move semantics except in
>> contrived examples, so I think some kind of justification of the above
>> claim would be justified.
>
> We went through that, at exhaustive length, last year. The final
> results are here:
> <http://listarchives.boost.org/Archives/boost/2010/05/166036.php>.
[...]
I tried to find the test program in the sandbox, following the link
given here:
http://listarchives.boost.org/Archives/boost/2010/05/165858.php
but failed :( Help?
Thanks,
- Jeff