Geert Fannes wrote: [... example code elided ...] > Unfortunately, this code duplicates the content values of the matrix, it > has a copy inside the @columns and one inside the @rows and these need > to be maintained so they stay the same, which is programming and > execution overhead. What does your C/C++ program do to get around this difficulty? -- -- Jim Weirich jweirich / one.net http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)