Subject: Re: [boost] Stacking iterators vs. dataflow
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-03 19:48:15
on Wed Sep 03 2008, "Giovanni Piero Deretta" <gpderetta-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> Given an appropriate buffering size (a memory page?) you could hide
> the buffering step inside an interator adaptor, which, instead of
> producing every N'th value on the fly, would batch the production of
> enough elements to fill the buffer.
>
> David: BTW, I think that you can use exactly the same abstraction used
> for segmented iterators to expose the buffering capability of a
> buffered iterator adaptor.
Yes, an iterator with a backing buffer would work great as a segmented
iterator.
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