Re: [Boost-users] How to improve property_tree performance

I've never done a performance analysis of PTree (I hardly have time to get the docs up to date with the actual library), so I don't know what is fast and what is slow. PTree is definitely not a fast library. I have some ideas about how to make it faster, but that would take essentially a reimplementation of the ptree class.

ptree uses std::list internally, right? I think it would be worth to use e.g. boost::ptr_deque or boost::ptr_vector (or a similar scheme) to reduce the number of heap allocations somewhat. -Thorsten