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Re: Question about compiler-supplied assignment and copy with egcs.

At 04:26 PM 2/24/99 -0800, you wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 06:19:53 -0500
>> To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
>> From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh@usa.net>
>
>> Q: If egcs is allowed to supply the assignment operator and copy
>> constructor for a "plain old data" type, will they be generally more
>> efficient than user supplied versions?
>
>This is a reasonable assumption.  If it is ever false, I think a
>performance enhancement request is reasonable.

With that in mind, I could probably supply a draft of a working valarray
header that will do as the standard requests and avoid some temporaries
with argument passing and return.

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