
Hi Ion, John, all, I apologize that I don't have time for a full review, as I'm going offline hiking for the rest of the review period. Obviously the library should be accepted. Move emulation, stateful allocators, emplace, recursive containers, ... so many excellent features. And this code has been tested as part of Interprocess for years. However, I do find the documentation lacking. While the Doxygen reference looks very complete, I want to see the overview documentation expanded, including covering the following topics: Stateful allocators seem to be unmentioned. Do they affect performance or behavior? I know this might be a big topic; links are okay. My understanding is that these are fully supported but other allocator improvements are not yet present? Out of curiosity I'd like to see a bit of text about the future directions, mentioning N1953 & N2045. Could the contents of Joachin's blog post http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2008/08/stable-vectors.html go into an overview section for stable_vector? Recursive container is not defined, also maybe link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_data_type What is it used for: directed graph. Some guideline about when it's better to use flat_*. I figure you would use such a structure when you're not doing a lot of inserts or when there are few elements. The advice can be somewhat handwavy and instruct the user to do measurements, but it should be there. Silly question, but I'm not clear how to use this ordered_unique_range_t that's in the Doxygen - is there a constant or do you default construct it or what? As earlier pointed out, a lot of the Doxygen parameters and descriptions have gotten out of sync k/x first/i etc. Well, I've run out of time. Hope this helps a little. Cheers, Gordon

El 07/08/2011 9:16, Gordon Woodhull escribió:
Hi Ion, John, all,
I apologize that I don't have time for a full review, as I'm going offline hiking for the rest of the review period.
Obviously the library should be accepted. Move emulation, stateful allocators, emplace, recursive containers, ... so many excellent features. And this code has been tested as part of Interprocess for years.
Thanks.
However, I do find the documentation lacking. While the Doxygen reference looks very complete, I want to see the overview documentation expanded, including covering the following topics:
Ok, let's improve it then.
Stateful allocators seem to be unmentioned. Do they affect performance or behavior? I know this might be a big topic; links are okay. My understanding is that these are fully supported but other allocator improvements are not yet present? Out of curiosity I'd like to see a bit of text about the future directions, mentioning N1953& N2045.
Ok. I'll describe current stateful allocator implementation. The fact is that stateful allocators are going to get a big push with the new standard and Scoped Allocators. The mid-term goal is to support it: www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2009/n2946.pdf
Could the contents of Joachin's blog post http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2008/08/stable-vectors.html go into an overview section for stable_vector?
Sure if Joaquín agrees ;-)
Recursive container is not defined, also maybe link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_data_type What is it used for: directed graph.
Ok.
Some guideline about when it's better to use flat_*. I figure you would use such a structure when you're not doing a lot of inserts or when there are few elements. The advice can be somewhat handwavy and instruct the user to do measurements, but it should be there.
Ok
Silly question, but I'm not clear how to use this ordered_unique_range_t that's in the Doxygen - is there a constant or do you default construct it or what?
There is a constant in container_fwd.hpp. Maybe we should add an example.
As earlier pointed out, a lot of the Doxygen parameters and descriptions have gotten out of sync k/x first/i etc.
Ok
Well, I've run out of time. Hope this helps a little.
Thanks! Ion

Ion Gaztañaga <igaztanaga <at> gmail.com> writes:
El 07/08/2011 9:16, Gordon Woodhull escribió:
Could the contents of Joachin's blog post http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2008/08/stable-vectors.html go into an overview section for stable_vector?
Sure if Joaquín agrees ;-)
Absolutely. Thank you for turning this modest container into a Boost-quality component. Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

El 07/08/2011 20:49, Joaquin M Lopez Munoz escribió:
Ion Gaztañaga<igaztanaga<at> gmail.com> writes:
El 07/08/2011 9:16, Gordon Woodhull escribió:
Could the contents of Joachin's blog post http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2008/08/stable-vectors.html go into an overview section for stable_vector?
Sure if Joaquín agrees ;-)
Absolutely. Thank you for turning this modest container into a Boost-quality component.
I found it very useful. So not so modest ;-) Best, Ion
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Gordon Woodhull
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Ion Gaztañaga
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Joaquin M Lopez Munoz