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

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest check: container with preallocated buffer
From: Dmitry Vinogradov (sraider_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-26 09:06:13

Dmitry Vinogradov wrote:
> 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().
> 

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