File	Date	Author	Commit
docs	2008-11-14	Mike Tegtmeyer	[d25e2b] Removed generated files
tests	2008-11-14	Mike Tegtmeyer	[d25e2b] Removed generated files
.gitignore	2009-03-02	Mike Tegtmeyer	[c46f4f] Added missing const in cslice operator. Bumped ...
AUTHORS	2006-08-15	mtegtmeyer	[c9a2a9] Initial revision
COPYING	2007-05-30	mtegtmeyer	[7888cb] added second parameter for T * and T & cvalarra...
ChangeLog	2009-03-02	Mike Tegtmeyer	[c46f4f] Added missing const in cslice operator. Bumped ...
INSTALL	2006-08-15	mtegtmeyer	[c9a2a9] Initial revision
Makefile.am	2006-08-15	mtegtmeyer	[c9a2a9] Initial revision
NEWS	2009-03-02	Mike Tegtmeyer	[708907] Appended news for release 0.2.2
README	2007-10-01	mtegtmeyer	[c6c17c] brought cvs tree in line with distributed changes
configure.ac	2009-03-02	Mike Tegtmeyer	[c46f4f] Added missing const in cslice operator. Bumped ...
cvalarray.h	2009-03-02	Mike Tegtmeyer	[c46f4f] Added missing const in cslice operator. Bumped ...

Read Me

cvalarray is a c++ template class designed for numeric processing in a manner
mirroring the STL class valarray with the exception that it is statically
sized. The purpose of the cvalarray class is to address shortcomings in
specific use-cases where valarray's dynamic-sized nature imposes too great of
performance limitation. 

This is achieved primarily by moving function arguments that specify size and
slices to template arguments. This has the added benefit of moving many errors
that would normally occur at runtime to compile time. 

In addition, the implementation takes advantage ofthe static-sized nature and
unrolls all operations <= the preprocessor UNROLL_LIMIT (default 10)

Mail any bugs or suggestions to tegtmeye at eecis dot udel dot edu

See the NEWS file for changes made to a particular version

noteworthy things:

The performance comparisons against std::valarray are meaningless as it is
fairly hard to obtain timing measurements for such things as most compilers
tend to optimize most of the code that you want to time away.

The compound math check can take a VERY long time to compile as it is
testing every permutation of the math operators

This implementation does not use any extensions to the c++ language but
requires a modern, ISO complient c++ compiler.

It is known to compile on the following compilers:
- GCC 4.*
- GCC 3.4.5
- MSVC 8.0 SP1

 * Copyright (c) 2006,2007  Mike Tegtmeyer
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