a note on std::complex performance

[Benjamin Kosnik]

Odd.

I don't suppose you could post fully-formed source code that demonstrates 
this, with the "certain circumstances" clearly spelled out?

thanks,
benjamin

> i noted that, under certain circumstances, std::complex (with gcc-3.0.0)
> is by a factor of 2-3 slower than with stlport.  my application is
> simply the mandelbrot iteration, whose inner loop is