Re: "DINKUMWARE LTD is the last remaining commercial supplier of Standard C++ libraries" - Dinkumware's website
on Thu Apr 23 2009, Piotr Dobrogost <pd-AT-1.google.dobrogost.pl> wrote:
Hi
I just read this
"DINKUMWARE LTD is the last remaining commercial supplier of Standard
C++ libraries, (...)"
on http://www.dinkumware.com/competitors.aspx
{ mod note: the quoted paragraph continues "and has long been the only
commercial supplier of Standard C libraries." -mod }
If that was due to the fact there are free comparable implementations
of the Standard C++ library I could understand this. But taking TR1 as
a test case Dinkumware estimates conformance of free implementations
as 15% for Boost, and 12% for Gcc in a comparison to their 100%
(http://www.dinkumware.com/tr1_compare.aspx).
Just to be very clear, Boost isn't an implementation of standard C++,
and doesn't claim to be. I think the documentation of Boost.TR1 could
be a bit clearer about its aims w.r.t. conformance, but it is very
upfront about existence of known non-conformances.
As for GCC, it would be interesting to see how Dinkumware fares when run
against the test suite used to validate the GCC standard library ;-)
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Dave Abrahams
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