Hi List, I have been using boost::type_erasure a bit. I found that in the case of implementing equality_comparable, when it passes into operator== a placeholder argument corresponding to some any, it always wraps it in a param, which internally instantiates an any. While this instantiation does not cause the actual content to be copied, it always clone the share_ptr pointing to the dispatch table, causing an extra shared_ptr construct/destruct invocation whenever I do an equality comparison. This source of inefficiency seems unnecessary to me. Is it possible to modify param such that it only stores non-ref counted raw reference to the original argument? Of course the functions in type_erasure::detail::access need to be updated accordingly. Will this modification break some grander scheme underlying type_erasure that I am unaware of, being new to the code base? It seems to me that when param wraps a temporary, the temporary is guaranteed to live past the lifetime of the invocation. Can people vet this idea before I take a stab at changing the code? Thanks, Yuanchen