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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Object pools?
From: Michael Caisse (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-17 02:24:46


Ryan McConnehey wrote:
> 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

Hi Ryan -

Did you take a look at Boost.Pool?

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/pool/doc/index.html

regards -

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Object Modeling Designs
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