Re: [Boost-users] [Containers] Marshalling deques

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Containers] Marshalling deques
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-26 00:49:14

El 25/08/2011 22:01, Michael Goldshteyn escribió:
> "Brian Wood" <woodbrian77_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:CABWFOjtOAVqtM6Yf0tJ+FE=X1DKXwAWq8-K1rQGYKeFBZOzQQA_at_mail.gmail.com...
>>
>> that I'd like to mention. Does the deque in the Containers library
>> have support for accessing the chunks it uses? Would you be willing to
>> add a function that gives that? Tia.
>
>> Shalom,
>> Brian Wood
>
> I think that having a “configurable” deque class template is one of the
> best things that could be offered by a boost Containers library. I have
> always wondered why noone wrote a version of the deque class template
> that allowed the configuration of such things as the page / block size,
> rather than have it be determined by a compile time formula based on the
> size of the data type being stored. It would seem to me that the page /
> block size is one of the more critical pieces affecting the size / speed
> tradeoffs in a deque’s performance when there are many insertions taking
> place.

That's is a good idea, thanks. I'll add this to the to-do list.

Best,

Ion