[vtk-developers] Deprecating vtkFastNumericConversion

[Berk Geveci]

Since VTK 6 has bunch of backwards incompatible changes, I'd say that this
is a good opportunity to remove it without deprecating it first :-)


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:52 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I would like to remove vtkFastNumericConversion from VTK, it contains
> a bunch of bit-hacks for speeding up Round() and Floor() on the
> PentiumII and earlier processors, and the operations it performs have
> undefined results according to the current C/C++ standards.
>
> How do I go about deprecating a full class?  Or can I simply remove
> it, if it isn't used anywhere?
>
> I made a gerrit topic for its removal:
> http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/2593/
>
>  - David
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