----- Mensaje original ----- De: Cory Nelson <phrosty@gmail.com> Fecha: Sábado, Julio 1, 2006 10:02 am Asunto: Re: [boost] Interest in a flyweight library?

On 6/28/06, Joaquín Mª López Muñoz <joaquin@tid.es> wrote: [...]

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So, is there interest in having such a lib in Boost? Please note that the provided implementation is still a primitive one, but OTOH it does have all the advertised functionality, so one can use it to test it locally and form an opinion about its suitability: if somebody, for instance, can plug it into some scenario with massive quantities of elements, I'd appreciate knowing about resulting memory and performance improvements.

In case this raises interest, I can turn the thing into a more fleshed out proposal during the summer.

This library seems like it could be excellent, lets get a review going!

Thank you for your enthusiasm :) I'm afraid it'll take me weeks to come up with something complete enough to apply for a review. But given that there's quite some interest, I think I'll put myself to work on it.

As others have noted, of all the languages I have looked at, I've never heard the term "flyweight", only "interned". Where does "flyweight" come from? This library might get more recognition if it used the more common name.

As I said in other of my responses, I'd appreciate your proposing names according to the format lib name / namespace names / main utility so as to be able to compare among alternatives. Thank you! [...]

Cory Nelson http://www.int64.org

Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarollo