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

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest check: container with preallocated buffer
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-27 08:51:38

Dmitry Vinogradov skrev:
> 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().
>>
> 
> + resize()

on my todo.

-Thorsten