Re: [boost] Google Summer of Code [Associative Containers]

From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-28 18:33:42

The Associative Containers project can refer also to Shmem, since Shmem 
has implemented the full ordered vector family (flat_map, flat_set, 
flat_multimap and flat_multiset) for shared memory (these containers 
work also with std::allocator).

Another option is to take those containers out of Shmem (they have minor 
dependencies with Shmem framework) and present them as general purpose 
containers that also are useful for shared memory/memory mapped files. 
Like boost::unordered_xxx family, I would like to have just one 
container in Boost without duplicating it in other libraries. The bad 
news is that Shmem flat_xxx containers are not documented, but it's not 
difficult to do it since they have the same interface as std::map/set 
family. The hard part is the portability to non-conforming compilers 
like VC6, but I think there are utilities in Boost to workaround these 
problems.

Regards,

Ion