Re: [boost] Interest in a container which can hold multiple data types?

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in a container which can hold multiple data types?
From: Joaquin M Lopez Munoz (joaquin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-05 12:49:08

TONGARI J <tongari95 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> If the data sequence shows some affinity, I guess an ordered
> tuple_vector-based sequence can provide some performance benefit in
> traversal (with some crafted for_each method).
> 
> That is, a sequence of [AAABBB] may be traversed faster than [ABABAB] for
> such a container, and I believe in the later case such that the types are
> uniformly distributed, vector<variant> will perform better.

I wrote something on this some time ago, maybe worth having a look at:

http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2014/05/fast-polymorphic-collections.html
http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2014/05/fast-polymorphic-collections-with.html

Joaquín M López Muñoz
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