Re: [boost] Stack-based vector container

Subject: Re: [boost] Stack-based vector container
From: Michael Caisse (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-28 20:00:34

On 12/28/2010 04:58 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> At Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:36:46 -0500,
> David Bergman wrote:
>    
>> Greg,
>>
>> What you are doing here is to mix two (presumably...) orthogonal
>> aspects, in that you bake in the allocation policy in the vector
>> interface.
>>
>> In fact, a "static allocator" to be used in cases like std::vector
>> was discussed at length on this list a year ago (or was it two
>> years?)
>>      
> Yeah, an allocator with some internal storage that falls back to the
> heap when it's exausted would allow std::vector's to essentially use
> the "small string optimization."
>
>    

+1

i like it!

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Michael Caisse
Object Modeling Designs
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