On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:25:04 +0100, Chris Newbold <Chris.Newbold@mathworks.com> wrote:
[...]We've started introducing boost::pool at various places in our software in order to manage allocation of small, short-lived objects. We have run into some difficulty, however, with the algorithm governing the growth of the blocks allocated internally. [...]I am more than willing to prototype some changes in the code if there is interest in extending boost::pool in this manner.
I'm using Boost.Pool, too, and agree that it would be useful if it could be customized. In fact there are adaptive pool allocators in Boost but only in Boost.Interprocess (see http://igaztanaga.drivehq.com/interprocess/interprocess/allocators_container...). I'm also concerned about the bug http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1252 (I didn't have any time yet though to check if I can reproduce the problem and if my program is affected, too). Boris