Interval-TODO.htm

# TODO list for the Interval Arithmetic library

## Comments from the review process

- It would be nice to have a 100% portable Rounding policy class based on LIA-1 only, with no additional requirement such as IEEE 754 or even more.
- For pi and other constants, we should fetch them from the Math constants library when it is ready.

## Various items

- Support the `-mfpmath=sse` option of g++ for Pentium IV optimized code. This requires a different rounding policy class.
- Have an optimized specialization of `interval<double>` using SSE2 instructions? Tricky.
- Write a traits specialization for `interval<MPFR>`, and other non-built-in number types.
- Have a robust implementation of transcendental functions over the built-in floating point types (e.g. using MPFR)?
- Safe conversions from `interval<double>` to `interval<float>`? Requires partial specialization.
- It would be nice to use the expression template mechanism to automatically use the more efficient unprotected rounding mode version for small subexpressions (although you can do bigger expressions by hand).

Revised 2006-12-24

Copyright © 2002 Guillaume Melquiond, Sylvain Pion, Hervé Brönnimann, Polytechnic University

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