Re: [Boost-users] Dynamically creating new units

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Ray Burkholder wrote:

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I think this falls under the PIMPL idiom, which is described by Herb Sutter at:

http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill04.htm http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill05.htm

Quite frankly, I don't see much point in using the PIMPL idiom. I'd much rather use:

struct widget; shared_ptr<widget> make_widget(); void frobnicate( widget & );

Exactly! Ditto. Just what my last post said. It is a very "C" style rather then C++, but its compiling speed enhancements are very nice.