Re: [boost] [flyweight] some minor comments

From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-16 14:05:41

Joaquin M Lopez Munoz skrev:
> Thorsten Ottosen <thorsten.ottosen <at> dezide.com> writes:

>> I would use it as a lightweight and more convenient replacement for
>> boost::shared_ptr<const T>.
>>
>> In my application I might have < 50 objects that needs to by flyweights. 
>> They are almost never identical, and if they are, the memory occupied by 
>> the factory would probably be much larger than that of duplication.
> 
> Well, then you might not need using the flyweight idiom
> after all... 

Well, it's lower overhead (if no factory and forwarding 
constructors/operations makes it a better choice than shared_ptrconst T>.

-Thorsten