Re: Marshalling deques
Ebenezer wrote:
On Aug 17, 5:23 am, "Bo Persson" <b...@gmb.dk> wrote:
Ebenezer wrote:
When you have a vector of a primitive type, rather than
iterating through each element, you can marshal the vector
with the address of the first element and multiply the size
of the vector with the size of each element like this:
buf.Receive(&*vec.begin(), vec.size() * sizeof(T));
I'd like to do something similar with deques, but they are
implemented in chunks rather than a single chunk. How
to get the address and size of each chunk, though? Tia.
http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/054.htm
You cannot.
Deque has to use a two level addressing, probably involving an
array of pointers to the chunks, but the details are not specified
by the standard. There is no interface to this internal structure.
In that case, how about changing the standard? I believe iterating
through a deque is more involved than iterating through a vector.
Iterating through a deque is encoded in the iterators. It does take
about twice as long as iterating a vector.
The advantage is that you can insert and delete at both ends without
moving the member objects and that the memory is allocated in chunks
instead of in one large block. That's a trade off!
Bo Persson
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