Hi,
The frequent heap usage of boost::any was problematic to me
for small object sizes. So I made a small tweak in boost::any which
provides inline allocation of objects smaller than a certain template
defined size. It practically eliminated the performance overhead of heap
allocation and deallocation in my project while providing all benefits
of boost::any.
You can see the changed file at http://gitorious.org/athi/athi/blobs/master/core/any.hpp
It is not cleaned up, but I thought it worthwhile to have any comments from somebody who solved the same problem.
Thanks,
Adarsh