[vector] Removal of some operations

[Paul Sandoz]

> On Feb 2, 2018, at 6:29 AM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On Feb 2, 2018, at 1:18 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> In an effort to shrink down the API to a smaller set of operations and thus make it easier scope out a first viable implementation we can remove the following lesser known operations:
> 
> Rather than complete removal, I think it would be better to
> sideline those operations into a separate class, as static
> generic algorithms.
> 
> Maybe the *Exact guys could go into one class.  And
> eventually a set of *Saturating algorithms, alongside it.
> 

The intent being these are helper methods that are not necessarily optimized but might in the future and if so are candidates to be promoted to the Vector* classes? (and since this is incubating we still have flexibility to remove ‘em)


> (Also, does it really say "substract”?

No, that was a typo originating from the list i copied from and failed to correct in this email.

Paul.