[phobos] Is anyone working on std.complex?

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Fri Mar 26 18:11:58 PDT 2010



Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Sounds good to me.
>>>
>>> Walter, what steps do we need to take to extricate complex from the 
>>> language and put the related code in the stdlib with Don's help?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's pretty trivial. You can use the complex support code in dmd as a 
>> good starting point.
>
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmd/browser/trunk/src/complex_t.h
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmd/browser/trunk/src/backend/bcomplex.c
>
> Would these contain the code you are referring to?

Yes.

>
> Both look like standard, straightforward implementations of complex 
> arithmetic operations.  Are there optimisations hidden in other parts 
> of the code that I'm not seeing?
>

Nope. If there are clever/magic alternatives, I don't know about them.



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