Re: [boost] boost::dynamic_array

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-04 13:14:39

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Matthias Troyer
| Sent: 04 October 2005 08:23
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: Re: [boost] boost::dynamic_array
| 
| I see advantages in a variant of this idea, with a 
| compile-time fixed  
| capacity, an implementation of which was done a few years ago by  
| Synge Todo and posted here. There the advantage is that pointer  
| dereferencing can be avoided, and memory usage is minimized.
| 
| Discussions of this library stopped on the Boost list, after some  
| members wanted a full-fledged policy-based vector instead, which was  
| then never developed. For those who need it, the library is now  
| published under the Boost license as a part of the ALPS libraries  
| (http://alps.comp-phys.org/).
| 
| It would be worth reconsidering this project, and maybe extending it.

Agreed.

Paul

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