RE: [boost] function/bind ideas

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (alexy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-28 12:46:43

David Abrahams wrote:
> As an optimization, it should be possible to detect free and 
> member function arguments to the constructor of function<> 
> and treat them as though they were passed with ref(), 
> eliminating the need for dynamic allocations in many
> cases. 

I had that same idea for a while as well. FWIW, if 'boost::function<>'
didn't perform dynamic allocation on something as simple as 'f =
boost::bind(&my::foo, this)' (and provided a non-throw guarantee for such
operations), we would have switched to it long time ago :).

Aleksey