On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:36:20 +0100, Mario Mulansky wrote:

[...]I'm planning to make a project out of the "Benchmark framework" idea. I appreciate any input, however I will add it to the wiki by the end of this week - would that be enough for you?

Yep, no problem. The deadline for applications is end of next week.

Thanks for your effort on this, Boris!

I'm not doing much - it will be the mentors to thank for. :) I was a mentor a few years ago, and I know mentoring costs some time (it's really important to organize the project with the student in a way that it doesn't become too time-consuming for the mentor). But if we think Boost should be among the prominent open source organizations which participate in the GSoC program, it's now really time to step forward and add proposals to https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2013. :) Boris

I think another good project would be a redesign of Boost.Pool, especially now with the stateful allocators of C++11 and Boost.Container. a pool on the stack together with a stateful allocator in an container::vector can replace the often proposed auto_buffer, thread-local pools which only lock a mutex when full, pools with different complexity guarantees (the current Boost.Pool has a often unacceptable linear complexity on delete), containers that "embed" a certain amount of memory which they are likely to use and only allocate when they exceed that size, ...