[Boost-users] Re: Fix location STL/boost containers?

From: Russell Hind (rh_gmane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-23 02:08:35

Bo Peng wrote:
>>Can you, instead of storing objects in your vector, allocate the objects on
>>the heap and store pointers (or shared pointers) to them?  In this case you
>>would not have to worry about the vector moving it's elements around -- it
>>would be just moving pointers.
> 
> 
> This may be a good solution. The only problem is that  find(...) will
> be looking for identical pointers instead of identical objects.  Easy
> to fix though.
> 

if nothing is even going to change in the container, do you know the 
number of items at compile time?  If so, you could perhaps use boost::array.

Cheers

Russell