Arbitrary Solvers?

[Daniel H]

Hello All,

 

Would it be possible to genericize CashFlows::yield (and by extension BondFunctions::yield) to take an arbitrary solver, instead of the default NewtonSafe solver?

 

Using a template parameter with a default value would have been backwards compatible but alas, using default template values is not possible pre-C++11 and QuantLib does not currently support dynamic dispatch for solvers so it cannot be passed into the function either.

 

Are there any possibilities of creating a patch to use an arbitrary solver at runtime? I would be happy to code it up.

 

Thanks,

DH

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[Luigi Ballabio]

Hi,

    you can add a template overload of CashFlows::yield. Since it would take an instance of the solver, it wouldn't cause an ambiguity with the existing method.

Luigi

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:24 PM Daniel Hrabovcak <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello All,

 

Would it be possible to genericize CashFlows::yield (and by extension BondFunctions::yield) to take an arbitrary solver, instead of the default NewtonSafe solver?

 

Using a template parameter with a default value would have been backwards compatible but alas, using default template values is not possible pre-C++11 and QuantLib does not currently support dynamic dispatch for solvers so it cannot be passed into the function either.

 

Are there any possibilities of creating a patch to use an arbitrary solver at runtime? I would be happy to code it up.

 

Thanks,

DH

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