[boost] Proposal & Observations: squad_ptr<>

From: Philippe A. Bouchard (philippeb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-24 08:59:55

I made some modifications to squad_ptr<> that enables assignments to derived
pointers.

"David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:ahkg6i$27q$1_at_main.gmane.org...
> "Philippe A. Bouchard" <philippeb_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:ahk9m0$dsr$1_at_main.gmane.org...

[...]

> thousands of items.  However, my typical listview record is maybe
> 80-120 bytes long.  I'm quite sure I wouldn't notice the loss of another 4
> bytes to a count pointer.  However, one wonders why one would use a

Ok then...  What about a multithreaded application that manages thousands of
transactions with a duration dependent on different opinions from different
places?

[...]

Inconsistancy I've noticed: the whole point of policy-based design is
*choice*...  but my preferences towards speed / memory gains with operator
new (size_t, void *) in a flexible way are shoved away.

Philippe A. Bouchard

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