Re: [boost] Interest in a flyweight library?

On 7/1/06, Cory Nelson <phrosty@gmail.com> wrote:

As others have noted, of all the languages I have looked at, I've never heard the term "flyweight", only "interned". Where does "flyweight" come from?

Flyweight is a software design pattern as described by Gamma et al in _Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)_. Wikipedia also has a fine description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyweight_pattern Jon