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

From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-29 04:44:36

Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
> 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).

Please update the pagen then.

> 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.

But doesn't Shmem (why is this not called Boost.Shared Memory?)
duplicate all containers?

> 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.

It's not good use of student time to do porting work. People need to 
move away from ancient compilers.

-Thorsten