Re: [boost] Interest in a flyweight library?

From: Jonathan Franklin (franklin.jonathan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-01 13:22:26

On 7/1/06, Cory Nelson <phrosty_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> As others have noted, of all the languages I have looked at, I've
> never heard the term "flyweight", only "interned".  Where does
> "flyweight" come from?

Flyweight is a software design pattern as described by Gamma et al in
_Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
(Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)_.

Wikipedia also has a fine description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyweight_pattern

Jon