[Boost-users] Object pools?

Subject: [Boost-users] Object pools?
From: Ryan McConnehey (mccorywork_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-16 20:31:10

I recently had to create a class that managed a pool of objects for the 
user.  Instead of the user creating the object themselves they would ask 
the class for an object.  The class would hand the user a 
boost::shared_ptr of the object.  When the boost::shared_ptr needed to 
destroy the object it handed it back to the class to reuse.  The class 
is designed for those areas that need a lot of the same object but not 
all at the same time.  This class has been useful for the boost::asio 
library where the async_receive and async_write need the buffer to be 
valid until the callback occurs.  Other people at my work have shown 
interest and I'm looking at needing to improve the class to make it more 
general.  Instead of spending time doing the improvements I would like 
to know if the boost libraries have anything like what I described.  
I'll looked through the descriptions but haven't seen anything that 
comes close.

Ryan