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Subject: Re: [boost] [variant] Heads-up!
From: Emil Dotchevski (emildotchevski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-05-02 16:52:09


On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 12:36 AM Antony Polukhin via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 20:30 Antony Polukhin <antoshkka_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've merged a very cool optimization by Nikita Kniazev into the master
> > branch. From now on boost::variant does pointer stealing for recursive
> > variants.
> >
> > This significantly improves the performance of the variants move
> > constructors.
> >
> > However if you use a variant variable after the std::move for anything
> > except destruction and assignment then you're getting an UB. Beware!
> >
>
> Reverted in develop. Master will be reverted soon.

Thank you!


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