Re: [boost] interest in structure of arrays container?

Subject: Re: [boost] interest in structure of arrays container?
From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-10-15 00:02:08

On 15 October 2016 at 05:43, Michael Marcin <mike.marcin_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> This is decent start but has several issues including:
>  * nothing to preserve the invariant keeping the arrays the same length
>  * missing coalesced interface for vector methods (size, reserve, etc)
>  * no iterator
>  * wasted storage for duplicated allocators, capacities, sizes
>  * sizeof...(Ts) allocations could be a single large block

 <snip>

Does this already exist somewhere?
>

 A std::deque that exposes it's chunks (and hopefully chunk-size)?

Does it seem useful?
>

To me yes... I was working on something similar, but with the added
requirement that deletion does not (necesarilly) change the indices of the
remaining elements.

degski