It is not about performance. Some libraries simply won't link if *.lib files aren't present. Those libraries which require building aren't header only, I guess.

Why some of the boost libraries must be precompiled dispute consisting of headers only? Any ideas? Thank you.

QuoteOriginally posted by: deepvalueQuoteOriginally posted by: kevin08(3) But first of all make sure to marry a wealthy and beautiful woman of breading age, why should she be of breading age? you need her to make you bread?It be breeding, i guess.

In your view, who would make a better quant, Bruce or Chuch? Please explain your reasoning. Thank you.

<t>(1) Stay in engineering, don't bother with MFE.(2) Finish your studies and join some Swiss patent office.(3) But first of all make sure to marry a wealthy and beautiful woman of breading age, preferably with Ph.D. in numerate field from top 10 school.That all you need to do ground-breaking cuttin...

<t>If (*i)->registerObserver(this) in Observer's copy constructor fails, some of the observables may end up with the copy of soon to be dead pointer this.If h->registerObserver(this) in Observer::registerWith fails, then h won't add this to its attention list, but this will be linked to the observab...

<t>It may sound paranoid, but copy contractor, assignment and registerWith methods of Observable class aren't exception safe. The danger maybe purely theoretical, though. If Observable::registerObserver throws, then some of the objects mey be corrupted. What do you think?Below is copy&paste from...

"The C++ Standard Library Extensions: A Tutorial and Reference" by Pete Becker covers TR1 in details and has many examples. TR1 is basically a part of boost which is to be included into C++0x. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 implements most of TR1.

What do you think about Parallel Patterns Library? How it compares to TBB?

Mister President,We badly need to pass that amendment banning overly long function names. Balancing the budget and bailouts can wait until 2012, Sir!

hm... now I am not sure if brunch has a verb form.Anyway, is there any practically important difference between two versions?

My dear friend Horatio,Which of the two simple implementations thou like the most? And why?

Thanks Cuchulainn, that was very illuminating.Happy new year to you all wilmotters .

What is incremental approach?No patters yet. TBB parallel algorithms seem to be adequate so far. If possible, I will try not to use threads explicitly.

By the way, I am trying to marry QuantLib and TBB. My early experience with TBB is very positive. Does Java or C# has similar high level constructs for concurrent programming?