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From: Larry Evans (cppljevans_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-23 09:02:05


On 12/13/2004 06:20 PM, Joel wrote:
[snip]
> Whenever I have some more free time (too much to chew), I
> am writing some docs for fusion. A part of it will be
> dedicated to a rationale which shall attempt to explain why
> a flat structure is generally optimal. I did have some tests.

Searching past posts containing tuple showed:

   http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg23983.php

which claims inheritance causes extra padding; hence,
this is one advantage of flat vs. inherited structure.


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