On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Ben Webb wrote:
> Daniel Russel wrote: >> Frido was complaining that the nbl was too slow, so I thought I would >> check in my local changes. The big thing is that the fastest >> implementation I have uses the CGAL library. > > All patches to IMP need to be reviewed before they are checked in. > Obviously, I am not going to do this while I'm on vacation, so unless > somebody else with some understanding of the code volunteers to check > through these patches, they'll have to wait until I'm back in the lab. > > I don't think we can use CGAL. It is certainly available for Fedora, > but > we build on a lot of other platforms too. It is tested on quite a variety of platforms. More than IMP, but I have not checked if it is a superset or not. And it doesn't really matter if a given platform is not supported. That platform will just use a slower algorithm.