Re: [Boost-users] Best way to put N ranges into a new container?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Best way to put N ranges into a new container?
From: John Dlugosz (JDlugosz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-07 18:11:37

> The constructor of vector and its assign member function are already
> optimized to exploit random access iterators.

I would hope that is the case (for Dinkumware via Microsoft), and that it would be rather efficient for other cases where it can be relaxed, and going down to a single memcpy is the most extreme case.

So, a lazy evaluator would combine cat(R1)(R2)(R3) into a single object that has an implicit conversion to vector, which works by creating a vector and hoping for RVO.  That function's body can look at the total size and reserve it, then append each range in turn.  I'm hoping/supposing that the natural way to append to a vector, which seems to be vector<T>::insert with Where being end(), is also optimized suitably.  And, in terms of what I'm planning, that Boost.Range's natural way of appending a range to a vector calls that.

> 
> Note however that a joined range of random access ranges doesn't know
> that every joined range is the same size, so its random access features
> are a bit slow.

Makes sense.

--John




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