Do It Yourself

The first purpose of this chapter will be to show how your library, a basic library for interval analysis, can be implemented in C++. As will soon become apparent, such an implementation is a lot of work. One may thus wonder if one would not be better off using a readily available library, and the second purpose of this chapter will be to explain how this can be done. We have chosen the profil/bias library, because it is licensed free of charge, and runs on a large choice of platforms. The time spent building your library will facilitate the understanding of the source code of profil/bias, as they share their basic syntax. The last purpose of this chapter will be to give some details on how the algorithms described in the rest of the book may be implemented, using either your library or profil/bias.