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    <p>This is a question about class design. I am confuse about how the compiler will deal with those two classes. As a object oriented language C++ need to optimize le layer of abstraction or type abstraction to be efficient. An example that I can think about are iterator. They are a totaly different type than a pointer and yet the compiler can optimise and for example in a for loop be as efficient as a pointer.</p> <p>What I am concern about is how to make those two classes as efficient if they would be only one. The two classes are the mathematic representation of a Point3 and a Vector3.</p> <p>Operation on Point3 are really limited but in mathematic we can make a Vector3 out of a Point3 by substracting it from the Origin. we can also do the oposite by considering the end of the Vector3 as a Point3.</p> <p>An example of this would be to scale a Point3.</p> <pre><code>Point3&lt;float&gt; positionStart; Vector3&lt;float&gt; scale; Point3&lt;float&gt; positionEnd; positionEnd = scale * positionStart; </code></pre> <p>This should convert the <code>positionStart</code> Point3 to a Vector3, do the multiplication and then take the end point of the temporary Vector3 to assign it to the <code>positionEnd</code>.</p> <p>How do we code this efficiently in C++ so that those conversion don't actually happen. Because in the end Point3 and Vector3 are represented by 3 floats. At runtime it should mather if it was a Point3 or a Vector3 but compiler should care about the type not the processor.</p> <p>I hope this is clear I'll try to explain better my confusion if not.</p> <p>thanks</p> <p>** Update ** To focus a bit more the question, this can be done with conversion constructors or conversion. operators. The internal are actually the same. Will the compiler be able to see trough and optimize out, I guess by inlining, those constructors and conversion operators.</p>
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    1. COWhat does it mean to multiply a point by a vector? I'm not sure that overloading `*` is a good idea here...
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    2. COYou can overload operators to take different types of 3D objects without having to use any type conversions. But what would the operations actually mean?
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    3. COIt doesn't mean much, but are mathematic tools. The intermediary operation don't necessarily have mean but the end have. You could want to scale a vertex while generating a 3D box for example.
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