[vector] Removal of some operations

[John Rose]

On Feb 2, 2018, at 5:38 PM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 2, 2018, at 6:29 AM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 2, 2018, at 1:18 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>> Rather than complete removal, I think it would be better to
>> sideline those operations into a separate class, as static
>> generic algorithms.
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>> Maybe the *Exact guys could go into one class.  And
>> eventually a set of *Saturating algorithms, alongside it.
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> 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)

Correct.  Back-benchers.

> (Also, does it really say "substract”?
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> No, that was a typo originating from the list i copied from and failed to correct in this email.
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> Paul.