On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:00:47 -0500, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 2) I'm not sure that the choice of the name is ideal. OTOH, I can't think >> of a better one... > >lexicographic? Indeed. We have an order relation < in X, and use what mathematicians call lexicographic order induced in X^n by <. A question worth asking ourselves, I think, is how good are current compilers at inlining this stuff. I had an application where thousands of points (coming from a VRML draw) had to be lexicographically ordered and analyzed. Given the size of the VRML files, that took generally a whole night on our machines. I don't dare to imagine what would have happened by implementing operator<() recursively without compiler optimization. Genny. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
