Re: Reverse in std_vector.hh

[Ruud van Silfhout]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Ruud van Silfhout wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have made an extension for the reverse function in std_vector.hh. 
> > The code suggests to implement template specialisation for reverse 
> > vector<int>.
>
> On second thought, I have reservations whether this is a useful idea, 
> it adds quite a lot of code, and your memrev function invokes memcpy 3 
> times on 4 to 10 byte objects. This is unlikely to be more efficient 
> than simply assigning int, double and float objects directly as 
> happens for the default implementation.
Han-Wen/Joe,
Thans for the feedback. I agree with you it looks a bit overkill, 
especially if there are only a few platforms that support memrev.
Just simply forget it.

Bye,
Ruud