Re: [boost] [pool] Definition of a static_pool ?

Subject: Re: [boost] [pool] Definition of a static_pool ?
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-28 07:55:39

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Christopher Kormanyos
<e_float_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> One other idea that may be of interest, though, is the concept
> of "placing" a custom allocator and its associated pool at
> a known physical address and granting these the one-shot allocation
> character that you describe. I have used this technique in combination with
> various sets of microcontroller registers to overly STL containers like a vector
> on top of, say, the background readings from a hardware DMA.
> In this way the DMA "fills up" your vector in a CPU-independent
> fashion and the user can read the results from the underlying hardware
> layer---properly packed in the container---with essentially zero cost.
> I have not yet seen anyone else do this with the STL.

I assume this vector can't be resized. Why use a vector instead of for
example an array or ptr pair?
-- 
Olaf