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

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in StaticVector - fixed capacity vector
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-16 05:21:00

Dave Abrahams wrote:

> In the wider use-cases why isn't "fall back to the heap" the right thing
> to do?

I've no idea. To avoid denial of service, perhaps. Or perhaps the processing 
code after that is limited to a specific size anyway for performance 
reasons, so it makes no sense to collect more values.