Re: [boost] [allocators] Article and library about allocator improvements

From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-23 12:35:45

Cory Nelson wrote:
> Looks very nice!  I have some code that could make good use of this -
> I'll be playing around with it for the next few days to see how it
> goes.

Thanks!

> One thing I'd be interested in is a zero-overhead scoped arena.
> Sometimes you just need a read-only collection, and don't want a
> pointer to a common arena (the overhead) being stored in all the
> dynamically sized objects.  I've been using Intrusive for this
> purpose, but it doesn't call destructors on its own and there's no
> vector that lets you one-time sizing.

I don't fully understand what you mean. Are you talking about an 
allocator that just allocates some big chunks of memory and increases a 
pointer to allocate memory (deallocation is no-op)? Could you elaborate 
a bit more?

Regards,

Ion