[vtk-developers] Deprecating vtkFastNumericConversion

[Berk Geveci]

I CC'ed Lisa since this seems to involve bunch of volume rendering code.


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>wrote:

> 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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