>  >Uhh...  pool is an accelerated memory allocator, but still is a memory
>  >allocator.  If we would use the standard malloc(), reconstruction of
>  >containers would be like allocating a separate reference count.  Also
get()
>  >is not that slow: 1 more second for 1000 sorts of a 10000 element
container.
> 
>  I'm not sure of the tradeoffs, but you have to allocate a
>  reference count anyway, no?  And you are paying an extra
>  cost in space of about N*(N/2) offsets for a system with
>  N ptr<> types, yes?

For N pointee allocations:
extra size = 2 x sizeof(int) x N.

The reference count is allocated at the same time the pointed object is and
takes 2 extra integers in size.  Yes I take 1 integer for the type
identification but don't we forget that the system memory map is smaller
(thus faster).



Philippe A. Bouchard





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