Re: [boost] Anyone working on containers with "a better allocator model"?

From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-03 13:54:29

Patrik Ellrén wrote:
> Not strictly boost related but I thought I should ask in case anyone here is 
> currently working on or know of any collection classes with a "boost like" 
> license that use an allocator model similar to the one described in:
> 
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1850.pdf
> 
> The main ideas being to decouple the allocator type from the type of a 
> collection and have per instance allocators. Surely I can't be the only one 
> with a need for this?
> 
> Does anyone know if this was ever proposed to the standards committee or was 
> it just an idea up for discussion back in 2005?

The only recent paper on improvements of allocators I know of are the 
"version 2" allocators from Ion Gaztanaga (N2045), which add support for 
in-place growing and shrinking.