Joaquín Mª López Muñoz <joaquin <at> tid.es> writes:
Thanks for the compliments! BTW, what do you use the lib for? (if you can disclose that info, of course.)
I use it as kind of in-memory database - very simple for now but evolving. I fill the container using hash index and then I need to iterate over the elements by ordered indexes. At first, I was considering using std::hash_map extensions, but the problem is that I need it both on Windows and Linux and I have to use default MSVC and GCC STL - and their hash map-s are different. Moreover, on Windows I write for Itanium and AMD64/EM64T as well and STL that is shipped with Platform SDK for those architecture is pretty old - old (but not good) Dinkumware without any hash_map-s at all. So I needed universal solution for hash container for Windows/Linux all architectures. This is how I decided to evaluate boost.multi_index. And also, it's very amusing to dig through multi_index sources - it's like a puzzle...