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Subject: Re: [boost] [container] documentation
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-23 16:41:03


El 23/01/2011 19:43, Gordon Woodhull escribió:
> Hi Ion,
>
> I read over the documentation for Container. Looks like a neat
> library. I like the idea of a next gen STL in Boost.
>
> In the documentation, I think the recursive containers section could
> spell out what's going on here - I didn't catch it at first. It
> could just say "Recursive data structures contain elements of their
> own type." Perhaps with a link to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_data_type. Pretty cool.

Thanks, I'll add this.

> Didn't this grow out of Interprocess? I'm wondering if it has
> somehow an improved contract with the allocator to support shared
> memory - or is that worth talking about?

Yes, it supports some special functions, also new allocation schemes
like explained in:

http://www.drivehq.com/web/igaztanaga/allocplus/

But those contracts are yet experimental.

Best,

Ion


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