Robert Ramey wrote:
Peter Dimov wrote:
- assuming that it can be provided without negative consequences for the current code base
All the current archives would have to be modified in some way to add this function and its default implementation.
A good proposal should not require any changes to existing archives that don't need to take advantage of the array optimization. The default behavior of the library ought to remain the same.
or existing archive formats.
that would remain to be seen. Verifying this could be difficult.
We could add tests for that. For most archives that implement the array functionality (including the binary archives, if we decide to enhance them), the optimization should be just that, an optimization; it should produce the same results as before, just in less time. I understand now that the task is not as trivial as it first seemed. But if we were to propose something along these lines that satisfies the above constraints, would you be willing to consider it for inclusion?