[boost] Re: Re: Formal Review: Circular Buffer

From: Pavel Vozenilek (pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-05 06:04:09

"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> wrote

> > 1. your rationale mentions many characteristics that
> > I would expect of  std::deque. Do you have any idea
> >  how big the performance difference is?
>
> What I'm looking for is some more evidence that the data structure is
really
> faster. I think that
> is relevant since that is your reason d'etre (or something, I never took
> French in highschool :-) )  for the container.
>
Higher speed is welcomed side-effect of implementation here
(no allocations).

Choosen data structure provides a lot of flexibility,
e.g. to implement debug support. That would be hard/impossible
with std::deque.

/Pavel