-----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Richard Hadsell Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:00 AM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Scoped_ptr + deleter

Caleb Epstein wrote:

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I'm not certain, but I would guess that overhead is the reason. Perhaps someone more closely involved in the implementation (Peter?) would care to comment.

As a user of scoped_ptr and scoped_array, I expressed a strong opinion that its memory usage remain as is, and some Boost developers agreed. If you have a way to maintain the current behavior (speed and memory footprint) as a default, you are welcome to add functionality. Otherwise, it becomes useless to me.

What about something like: #include <iostream> #include <vector> #include <algorithm> using namespace std; template <class A> struct caller { static void callme(A * d) { delete d; } }; template struct l00lz { A * p_; l00lz(A * p):p_(p) { caller::callme(p_); } }; int main() { int * a = new int(5); l00lz b(a); return 0; } AFAIK, it wouldn't affect the speed nor memory footprint