Re: [boost] [interfaces] Boost Interface Library (2004?)

Subject: Re: [boost] [interfaces] Boost Interface Library (2004?)
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-18 12:35:10

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Daniel Larimer <dlarimer_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I do not like the boost::function problems either, it was more of a notional.  There is always this(http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/fastdelegate2.aspx) drop in replacement for boost::function.

The article's analysis is wrong.  From the beginning Boost.Function
used the "small object optimization" to avoid an "expensive heap
memory allocation that [would be] required to store the member
function and the bound object on which member function call is made"

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Dave Abrahams
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