Expression templates
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Tue Oct 24 20:21:48 PDT 2006
I thought there was a big discussion on expression templates before, but
I can't seem to find it.
Anyway, I thought I'd see how it worked, so tried porting some code from
here:
http://www.flipcode.com/articles/article_fastervectormath.shtml
The result was that the expression template version was much slower than
just doing a plain assignment. But it does work. I mean you can write
c ~= a + b, it creates an expression object and evaluates it only when
writing it to c via opCatAssign.
This is a very primitive version of expression templates in that ...
there aren't any templates! It only creates an expression object out of
one thing: the addition of two vectors. But according to the flipcode
page this should already be faster than the straighforward add (though I
don't really see why).
I don't have any more time to spend on it but I thought I'd post it here
if someone was interested in tinkering with it.
--bb
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