Re: [Boost-users] [boost.any] Inline allocation of small objects in any.

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost.any] Inline allocation of small objects in any.
From: Kim Barrett (kab.conundrums_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-09 17:29:13

On Feb 9, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Adarsh Soodan wrote:
> I was curious if others have solved similar performance problems. I
> couldn't use boost::variant because I needed it for a message passing
> library where library user can pass in any message type.
> boost::variant would have been restrictive if the user wanted to use
> too many top level types of messages.

I would be interested in having boost::any (or some variation on it) providing small buffer optimization.  That was done for boost::function back around boost 1.34, and something like that would work just fine for my usage.  I've given the SBO for boost::any problem a cursory look, but have not yet demonstrated a sufficiently bad performance problem for use there to convince my managers that I should work on that rather than something else.