Re: [Boost-users] Interesting question, may be potential feature

From: Nat Goodspeed (ngoodspeed_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-28 12:58:18

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> Subject: [Boost-users] Interesting question, may be potential feature
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> But as some of you might have seen I have to pass to all accessors the
> reference or pointer to the
> accessed discrminated union type. So every instance requires on 32bit
OS
> at least 4 bytes. The
> banal thing is that a group of accessors accesses the same type. The
> question/idea here would be
> to use or to make these objects share the reference, so that all
related
> accessor references
> require 4 bytes. What do you think of this? Is it possible at all?

[Nat] Um, make accessors be methods of a small object that contains the
reference?

But in that case, why wouldn't the convenience methods be attached to
the referenced union object itself?