Re: [boost] [review] Heaps

Subject: Re: [boost] [review] Heaps
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-01 09:45:18

Den 01-06-2011 15:11, Tim Blechmann skrev:
>>>> I'd like to announce the beginning of the review of the Heap library,
>>>> written by Tim Blechmann
>>>
>>> A quick glance. On the surface it looks really good.
>>
>> Also, if it is not already possible, those heaps that use
>> an std::vector ir similar internally should have this data-structure
>> as a template argument s.t. we can easily change this. In some
>> application it might even be possible to use boost::array<T,N>.
>
> hm ... not sure about this: the implementations requires push_back/pop_back
> (which are not available for boost::array) and random access iterators. the
> std::vector can be configured to use a different allocator using parameters and
> one can use `reserve' to reserve memory for the vector ...
>
> so i do not really see a specific use case, where one really wants to use a
> different container, or do you have a specific case?

You might now the max size of your heap, and so you can make a simple 
wrapper around an array. Other cases would be to use something like
stlsoft::auto_buffer.

-Thorsten