[SciPy-Dev] Bundling Boost?

[Charles R Harris]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Anthony Scopatz <scopatz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> To comment on compiler support for boost, I have supported Boost on
>> Intel for some time.  The problem compilers are pgi and xl, but there
>> is pressure on these vendors to better support metatemplate
>> progamming.
>>
>
> I second Andy's comments about pgi and xl.  Otherwise, I am generally in
> favor
> of adding Boost.
>

I don't think the special_functions make use of metatemplate techniques.
The ublas templates in boost/math do, but that is a different application.

Chuck
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