Re: [Quantlib-dev] boostify QL

[Ferdinando A. <na...@am...>]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Dima <dim...@go...> wrote:
> I'm not sure whether we should switch to boost's date library.

Would you please elaborate your point ?

> Also, I
> haven't seen how signals could potentially
> replace observer/observables.

I might be completely wrong here as I'm not familiar about boost
signal/slot, anyway according to wikipedia it's one implementation of
the observer pattern:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_pattern

> As a first step, I'd really suggest
> to replace the distribution functions with
> the one in boost. This is I think easy to do and would be the first
> boostification step.

and since I forgot in my first email, please let me add that also the
boost stats classes might be an improvement.
Maybe even a performance improvement in MC when you only need mean and
variance and don't need the higher moments which are calculate in QL
stat classes

ciao -- Nando