A better direction: https://thephd.github.io/concerns-sg6-numerics-ts

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:00 PM Jake Arkinstall via Std-Proposals
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> I think it's more about the code, when a large binary representation unnecessarily gets in the way compared with something a quarter of the size.
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> strtoull and co have base arguments, so having the same thing for a bitset makes some sense IMO.
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> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, 19:53 Jorg Brown via Std-Proposals, <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> Ramy -
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>> You're saying that using strings to initialize bitsets is infeasible because of their size. To me, this sounds like you're concerned about, in this case, 80 bytes of RAM?
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>> You go on to suggest that the bitset string constructor should accept another argument, indicating the base of the string, and that the to_stirng member function should accept a base.
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>> But this also infeasible, albeit for a different reason: you're now suggesting that the standard library should be able to perform an arbitrary-precision conversion of a string from one base to another.
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>> That would cost a lot more than 80 bytes of code... and std::bitset is an odd place to put that conversion operation.
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>> I believe that, for your needs, it should be easy to write a pair of functions:
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>> template<size_t N>
>> std::bitset<N> bitset_from_hex(std::string_view);
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>> template<size_t N>
>> std::string hex_from_bitset(const std::bitset<N>&);
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>> Does that work for you?
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>> -- Jorg
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>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 12:25 PM ramy koudsi via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>>> Apologies, I must have been referring to an old spec by accident.
>>> C++11 and newer does indeed accept a string in one of the constructors.
>>>
>>> However, the accepted string must be zeroes and ones. This doesn't seem very feasible, especially as we get larger bitsets.
>>> Using current C++11 or newer, to initialize a bitset with a value of 80 bits, we would have to pass an 80 character string.
>>>
>>> For this reason I see a need for the bitset string constructor to accept another argument, indicating the base of the string.
>>> This way, initializing a value can be done with a much smaller string.
>>>
>>> A base can also be passed to the to_string member function, telling it to output a string in that base, instead of just zeroes and ones.
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>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Ramy
>>>
>>>
>>> On March 12, 2020 at 6:07 AM, Magnus Fromreide <magfr_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 01:49:42AM -0400, ramy koudsi via Std-Proposals wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>>
>>> std::bitset does not have a size limit, however it has an initialization size limit. Bitsets cannot currently be initialized with anything bigger than a long long int.
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>>> To remove this limitation I propose adding another constructor that accepts a std::string object.
>>>
>>>
>>> std::bitset already (since c++11) have a constructor accepting a
>>> std::basic_string.
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>>> /MF
>>>
>>> I see its use like:
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>>> std::bitset<80> bigbs(“FFFF95D3FFFFAC27FFFF”);
>>>
>>>
>>> The example above uses hex strings, but can easily be changed to accept strings of any base by adding another constructor accepting a string and an argument showing the base.
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>>> std::bitset<12> littlebs(“AFD”, 16);
>>>
>>>
>>> In addition, a member function to_string(int base) would be nice.
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>>> std::string littlestr = littlebs.to_string(16);
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>>> // littlestr is “AFD”
>>>
>>>
>>> I wanted to hear your thoughts about this. Has anyone thought of this and come up with a better solution?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>>
>>> Ramy
>>>
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