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Subject: Re: [boost] Regex allocator support
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-03 11:23:09


>> I hope my explanations clear things up a bit. I know that I speak for
>> just
>> a
>> few people, but things like theese, are the exact things that makes
>> especially game developers stay away from boost, so I hope you will at
>> least
>> look more into this.
>
> Thanks for the very lucid explanation: that helps a lot, looks like you're
> in a bind :-(
>
> Adding allocator support to regex in a way that can be tested and proved
> to
> prevent *any* other allocations would be hard to do and maintain I
> suspect... so I'd like to hear whether this is a more general issue for
> folks before jumping in.

PS, can you file a feature request for this at svn.boost.org along with your
explanation?

That way this won't get lost,

Cheers, John.


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