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[Adam Getchell <>]

Thanks Monique!

Adam Getchell
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> On Apr 27, 2015, at 7:24 AM, Monique Teillaud 
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>  wrote:
> 
> Le 25/04/15 08:06, Adam Getchell a écrit :
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I’m searching for documentation on these two functions to determine if I
>> am using them correctly. What is the difference between them? (What
>> makes a particular check expensive?)
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> Preconditions are documented in the developer manual, see
> http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Manual/devman_checks.html
> 
> To schematize:
> Preconditions are "expensive" for instance when they need to browse all 
> vertices (complexity O(n)) or all cells (complexity O(n^2)).
> "Normal" preconditions are in general constant-time.
> 
> Best,
> -- 
> Monique Teillaud
> http://www.loria.fr/~teillaud/
> INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, LORIA
> Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
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