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| 11 | <h1>TODO list for the Interval Arithmetic library</h1> |
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| 13 | <h2>Comments from the review process</h2> |
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| 15 | <li>It would be nice to have a 100% portable Rouding policy class based on |
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| 16 | LIA-1 only, with no additional requirement such as IEEE 754 or even |
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| 17 | more.</li> |
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| 18 | <li>For pi and other constants, we should fetch them from the Math |
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| 19 | constants library when it is ready.</li> |
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| 22 | <h2>Various items</h2> |
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| 24 | <li>Support the <code>-mfpmath=sse</code> option of g++ for Pentium IV |
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| 25 | optimized code. This requires a different rounding policy class.</li> |
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| 26 | <li>Have an optimized specialization of <code>interval<double></code> |
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| 27 | using SSE2 instructions? Tricky.</li> |
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| 28 | <li>Write a traits specialization for <code>interval<MPFR></code>, |
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| 29 | and other non-built-in number types.</li> |
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| 30 | <li>Have a robust implementation of transcendental functions over the |
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| 31 | built-in floating point types (e.g. using MPFR)?</li> |
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| 32 | <li>Safe conversions from <code>interval<double></code> to |
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| 33 | <code>interval<float></code>? Requires partial specialization.</li> |
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| 34 | <li>It would be nice to use the expression template mecanism to |
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| 35 | automatically use the more efficient unprotected rounding mode version |
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| 36 | for small subexpressions (although you can do bigger expressions by |
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| 37 | hand).</li> |
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| 41 | <p>Revised: 2003-01-19<br> |
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| 42 | Copyright (c) Guillaume Melquiond, Sylvain Pion, Hervé Brönnimann, 2002.<br> |
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