On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:22:40AM +0100, Marco Morandini wrote:
> On 11/26/2013 10:22 AM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >A fix for the STL std::nth_element bug in gcc 4.8.1 has been released
> >for Ubuntu 13.10 as an update:
> >
> >     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.8/+bug/1246802
> >
> >I suggest that we now remove the ifdefs for using boost::nth_element.
> >The change was not made in a separate branch, so undoing it will require
> >some digging. Anders: will you undo the change?
> >
>
> Don't assume that everyone out there is using Ubuntu.
> You could consider adding a check at configure time
> to detect the gcc bug.

Garth will claim that it has already been fixed since long on
Mac... ;-)

But I didn't notice any difference in speed between the two
implementations and we already require boost so I think we can just
leave it as it is for now. At a later point when speed really becomes
an issue, we can check the benchmarks again and then decide which
implementation to use.

--
Anders
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