MultiArray: a C++ library for generic programming with arrays
In C++, multi‐dimensional arrays are often used but the language provides limited native support for them. The language, in its Standard Library, supplies sophisticated interfaces for manipulating sequential data, but relies on its bare‐bones C heritage for arrays. The MultiArray library, a part of...
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| Published in: | Software, practice & experience Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 159 - 188 |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, UK
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
01.02.2005
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| ISSN: | 0038-0644, 1097-024X |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | In C++, multi‐dimensional arrays are often used but the language provides limited native support for them. The language, in its Standard Library, supplies sophisticated interfaces for manipulating sequential data, but relies on its bare‐bones C heritage for arrays. The MultiArray library, a part of the Boost library collection, enhances a C++ programmer's tool set with versatile multi‐dimensional array ions. It includes a general array class template and native array adaptors that support idiomatic array operations and interoperate with C++ Standard Library containers and algorithms. The arrays share a common interface, expressed as a generic programming concept, in terms of which generic array algorithms can be implemented. We present the library design, introduce a generic interface for array programming, demonstrate how the arrays integrate with the C++ Standard Library, and discuss the essential aspects of their implementation. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Bibliography: | ark:/67375/WNG-PCGTSBR6-D Lilly Endowment NSF - No. ACI-0219884; No. EIA-0131354 ArticleID:SPE630 istex:926A8BF6A83654C4F9A9187C2D46928F30D78A21 |
| ISSN: | 0038-0644 1097-024X |
| DOI: | 10.1002/spe.630 |