Re: [boost] [variant2] Review Results

Subject: Re: [boost] [variant2] Review Results
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-05-11 07:41:11

On 11/05/2019 06:17, Michael Caisse via Boost wrote:
> Boost.Variant2 will be ACCEPTED after the following changes are made. An
> additional review will not be required.
> 
>   - The library will implement the strong guarantee:
>     - If all alternatives have nothrow move, single buffer
>     - else, double buffer
>   - Improved documentation:
>     - Addition of a tutorial
>     - Addition of design motivation
>   - Peter has indicated that triviality propagation will come in a
>     future version. The initial Boost release need not support
>     triviality propagation.
>   - Expected will not be included but may be submitted for review at
>     another time.

Congratulations Peter, and thank you Michael for your service.

The above design is literally sorely needed in the codebase I am
currently deployed upon. We are currently on Boost.Variant, and paying
the price of dynamic memory allocation in a hot low latency code path.
Boost.Variant2 will be a very welcome replacement.

Niall