Hi Peter, I much prefer using a standard template library container to any other, even
if it's the same thing but different. I would therefore much prefer the std::map<int, float, std::less<int>, ...> approach to creating another container; especially as this one can also take a different comparison operator.
Yes, but what about boost::monotonic::inline_storage<N> storage; std::map<int, float, std::less<int>, boost::monotonic::allocator<int> > v(boost::monotonic::allocator<int>(storage)); versus: boost::monotonic::inline_storage<N> storage; boost::monotonic::map<int, float> v(storage); My rationale is that when I want a vector with a different allocation
scheme, I like to say "vector with a different allocation scheme" rather than "differently-allocated not-quite-a-std::vector".
I grok that; but boost::monotonic::container also is-a std::container with guranteed no extra junk. They are absolutely %100 type-compatible after creation. Regards, Christian