Re: [boost] Interest in StaticVector - fixed capacity vector

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in StaticVector - fixed capacity vector
From: Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. (jeffrey.hellrung_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-10 16:02:59

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Matt Calabrese <rivorus_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Hundt <athundt_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Andrew Hundt <athundt_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > >  I've implemented a small companion class to boost.array that functions
> > > like a stack allocated vector with fixed capacity. The motivation for
> > this
> > > class came when I was using boost.array in an interprocess library,
> when
> > I
> > > realized that I actually desired an adjustable size boost.array,
> without
> > the
> > > complexity of the vector class in the interprocess library. The result
> is
> > > StaticVector, which is boost.array directly modified with a size in
> front
> > of
> > > the array, and added facilities to match std::vector.
> > >
> > > The Implementation is available at:
> > > https://github.com/ahundt/Boost.StaticVector
>
>
> I believe there is interest -- in fact, there's already such a library in
> the review queue. It's Thorsten Ottosen's AutoBuffer library.
>

I had thought that was slightly different.  I may be misremembering, but I
had thought StaticVector has a statically-determined maximum size, while
AutoBuffer is something like a variant< StaticVector, std::vector >...

- Jeff