Re: [boost] Looking for a review manager for Real

El sáb., 5 sept. 2020 a las 12:45, Paul A Bristow via Boost (< boost@lists.boost.org>) escribió:

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-----Original Message----- From: Boost On Behalf Of Kostas Savvidis via Boost Sent: 5 September 2020 17:04 To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Kostas Savvidis ; Robert Ramey Subject: Re: [boost] Looking for a review manager for Real

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On Sep 5, 2020, at 03:02, Damian Vicino via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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There is actually not much overlap with other libraries, it may in the implementation details be some overlap with boost::interval arithmetic, but not in the goals or features exposed.

The goal in Real is to evaluate expressions that the required precision to evaluate them accurately is unknown in advance and explores how to achieve perfect accuracy for the evaluation, or fails noisily. <snip>

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so any comparisons should be with Boost.Interval and Arb (which is in C).

And is GPL licenced, not Boost :-(

Paul

Thanks for the comments.

I didn't have experience with the ARB library, but it seems very related. I think it will be super useful to use for comparing benchmarks and validate testing (same expression in both should have the same result kind of testing). I think the next step on our side would be to dig into ARB, automatize and compare them, and improve documentation. Sounds that we have work on that area for a while, I will post about review again after we have some advances there. BTW, great reference to the ARB, the libraries we knew about the topic are long dead, this one seems pretty much alive and it's very encouraging to see someone else working in the same area. About documentation. I think it would be really useful for us to have someone not involved with the project to point us what are the major areas of improvement we can target. Thanks! Damian