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

Subject: Re: [boost] interest in structure of arrays container?
From: Andreas Schäfer (gentryx_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-10-18 11:55:51

On 10:29 Tue 18 Oct     , Larry Evans wrote:
> The purpose of item:
> 
>    * sizeof...(Ts) allocations could be a single large block
> 
> is to just require 1 heap allocation instead of N, where N
> is the number of vectors in soa<T1,T2,...,TN>?

One benefit of this would be that transferring such a container to
another address space (think MPI or CUDA) would become much simple.

Cheers
-Andreas

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