[Boost-users] Re: [pool] Speed of pool_allocator<>

From: Markus Werle (numerical.simulation_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-06 11:56:44

Peter Dimov wrote:

> Your test is still very unrealistic. You create a large number of objects
> in one batch, then destroy them afterwards. A more realistic scenario
> would have creation and destruction interleaved.
> 
> The most accurate test would be to try Boost.Pool with your actual
> application and see how it affects its real-world performance. It's still
> possible for it to be slower, of course, but at least you'd measure the
> real thing.

OTOH I could not find an application where pool_allocators
outperformed Intel's small object allocator strategy.
So at least with Intel's C++ compilers pool_allocator is nice to 
have, but gained me nothing until now. 
IMHO this belongs to namespace premature_optimization.

Markus