Re: [boost] [Containers] Marshalling deques

Subject: Re: [boost] [Containers] Marshalling deques
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-24 15:33:23

El 24/08/2011 20:06, Brian Wood escribió:
> Ion Gazta?aga:
>  >
>  >El 22/08/2011 19:44, Brian Wood escribi?:
>  >> Would you be willing to add a function that gives that?  Tia.
>  >
>  > Yes, I think we need to think about a useful interface for that, maybe
>  > something like local_iterator in unordered containers or something like
>  > segmented iterator described by Matt Austern in his "Segmented Iterators
>  > and Hierarchical Algorithms" paper
>
> If I could get the number of elements in the first chunk and the
> size of the chunks, that would be sufficient.  (I believe the size
> of the chunks is constant within a deque instance.)

Not necessarily, but I think all implementations do that. The question 
is whether we should have a standard-friendly and implementation 
agnostic interface or an interface just for boost::deque implementation.

Best,

Ion