Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in a "Heterogenous Container" system?
From: Frank Mori Hess (fmhess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-02 13:44:52


On Saturday 01 August 2009, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> I personally never understood why they tied the type into the allocator.
> Having just the size and alignment would be so much better.

It seems to me any benefits of such a scheme would be non-portable, since
the sizes and alignments of two types may be the same with one compiler
(setting) and different with others.