On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 07:04 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
A 2-3% timing difference probably isn't reliably repeatable in real
code.
How code and data happens to land in hardware caches can easily swamp
out such a small difference. The version-to-version or step-to-step
differences in CPU's,
On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 06:04 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
So no need to guess, except in the case of a system which supports
multiple system specific formats.
It's a kind of funny situation.
Mac OS X does of course have enough POSIX support that the POSIX
implementation can be used. But
On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 11:23 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
it sounds to me as if boost::filesystem::path's system_specific
constructor and access functions should be used for Macintosh style
paths, and the generic constructor and access functions (as always) be
used for generic (ie
