Re: [boost] Interest check: container with preallocated buffer

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest check: container with preallocated buffer
From: Dmitry Vinogradov (sraider_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-25 12:23:37

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> Dmitry Vinogradov skrev:
>> Boost.Array offers constant size container with preallocated buffer, 
>> Boost.Optional provides from zero to one element. There are no STL 
>> container with preallocated buffer and it seems custom allocator does 
>> not help to do this with existing containers.
>>
>> Does any container exist to offer functionality like Boost.Array but 
>> allowing to store from 0 to N elements? Is there any interest in such 
>> container?
>>
>> PS. It's similar to fixed_string but as a generic container.
> 
> Please see
> 
> http://www.cs.aau.dk/~nesotto/boost/auto_buffer.zip
> 
> http://www.cs.aau.dk/~nesotto/boost/trunk/libs/auto_buffer/doc/html/

BTW, it would be nice to have an auto_buffer::assign(InputIt First, 
InputIt Last) member function like std::vector::assign().