From 625171396345310257 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,8eebfdfe25d22b37 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-23 14:16:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!btnet-peer0!btnet!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brangdon@cix.co.uk (Dave Harris) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: C++0x: vector::pack() Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:15:30 GMT Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: References: <3BD4B660.F3C7606@wizard.net> Reply-To: brangdon@cix.co.uk X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1003871736 mail2news:26283 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: host213-1-11-78.webport-cl2-hg4.ilford.mdip.bt.net (213.1.11.78) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1003871617 28767244 213.1.11.78 (16 [57443]) Lines: 29 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:7872 kuyper@wizard.net (James Russell Kuyper Jr.) wrote (abridged): > For most of the other standard containers, there's considerable less > reason to bother with such a function. std::vector and std::deque > are the only ones that routinely have a reason to significantly > overallocate. It could be useful to add such a function to the Allocators themselves. For example, a list allocator might keep a pool of free blocks which could grow large. std::list l; // ... l.get_allocator().pack(); would be a hint for the allocator to return free blocks to the heap it got them from. It should just be a hint, in my view, which the allocator (or collection) could ignore. Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK | "Weave a circle round him thrice, brangdon@cix.co.uk | And close your eyes with holy dread, | For he on honey dew hath fed http://www.bhresearch.co.uk/ | And drunk the milk of Paradise." --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]