Subject: Re: [boost] Review request: extended complex number library
From: Christopher Jefferson (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-07 17:20:03
On 7 Mar 2012, at 22:12, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 07:49 PM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>
>> you are right. The goal been to provide a faster library implies that
>> the Boost library should use the standard library when the standard is
>> more efficient, and we could expect that the standard is faster for the
>> scope it covers.
>
> What about correctness?
>
> Most implementations of standard library functions on complex numbers are not correct from a numerical point of view.
Really? Can you give some examples? Have you reported these issues to the various compiler designers?
Chris