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

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in StaticVector - fixed capacity vector
From: Adam Wulkiewicz (adam.wulkiewicz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-16 05:38:31

Nathan Ridge wrote:
>
>>> After reading this thread again, it seems to me that the reason we
>>> can't reach an agreement is that different people are proposing
>>> two fundamentally different ways of using static_vector:
>>>
>>>     1) As a variant of [std|boost]::array where not all the elements are
>>>         constructed/used at the same time, and which keeps track of
>>>         how many elements are currently in use.
>>
>> Can you please give some examples of such use?
>
> Another example would be the underlying data structure for a circular
> buffer whose maximum size is known at compile time.

As a container for storing some number of pointers/iterators/ids/etc. 
to/of children nodes in a node of some tree structure. This number of 
course must be known at compile time. E.g. in every variation of a 
B-tree, including all spatial indexes based on a rtree.

Regards,
Adam