On Wednesday 04 April 2007 17:22:30 Shawn Anderson wrote: > IMHO it is already complex on this point. Can some explain to me why > calling method foo<UInt8>() is any better/faster than calling fooUInt8()? > (my C++ is not the greatest) This seems like a place where it "was cool" to > use templates, but it didn't help with readability or speed. I could be > wrong on the speed. I'm not too great with templates, but my college is > and he said "he had never seen templates used like this, and does that even > compile?"
You can write method foo once far all, and the compiler can then optimize it for each type. > If it was done for some significant speed increase cool, just note the > gcc3.3 on mac will not work. Otherwise, you could just change it back to > the way it used to be with three method names instead one regular method > and two templated version. If it's there it's either for speed and to avoid code duplication ; both are very good reasons. > Congrats to everyone on the release btw. Who is in charge with building > for OS X? If there is documentation somewhere, I'd love to try and package > it up for OS X. No one is in charge of anything basically, it's self organisation. Steph -- http://people.epfl.ch/stephane.magnenat -- http://nct.ysagoon.com _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
