Re: memory efficient STL allocator alternatives? [ solved ]

From:
"Nevin :-] Liber" <nevin@eviloverlord.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:55:03 CST
Message-ID:
<nevin-404774.17325701082008@chi.news.speakeasy.net>
In article <4892fb59$0$49588$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
  Eric Meijer <eric_no1spam1@xs4all.nl> wrote:

---- code fragment ----

// threshold for shrinking intervals vector
const size_t ShrinkThreshold = 4;

// "lean" erase that never lets the capacity grow
// beyond size + ShrinkThreshold

template<typename V>
void LeanErase(V& v, typename V::iterator i)
{
   if(v.capacity() >= v.size() + ShrinkThreshold) {
     V w(v.size() - 1);
     typename V::iterator wi = w.begin();
     for(typename V::iterator vi = v.begin(); vi != v.end(); ++vi) {
       if(vi == i) continue;
       *wi++ = *vi;
     }
     w.swap(v);
   }
   else {
     v.erase(i);
   }
}


You may wish to avoid default constructing the elements in w, since they
are just going to be overwritten by the copy. One such way to write
this is:

template<typename V>
void LeanErase(V& v, typename V::iterator i)
{
     if (v.capacity() >= v.size() + threshold)
     {
         V w;
         w.reserve(v.size() - 1);

         std::copy(v.begin(), i, std::back_inserter(w));
         std::copy(++i, v.end(), std::back_inserter(w));

         w.swap(v);
     }
     else
     {
         v.erase(i);
     }
}

// lean insert that grows the vector capacity only by ShrinkThreshold

template<typename T>
void LeanInsert(vector<T>& v, typename vector<T>::iterator i,
   const T& t)
{
   if(v.capacity() < v.size() + 1) {
     vector<T> w;
     w.reserve(v.size() + ShrinkThreshold);
     w.resize(v.size() + 1);
     typename vector<T>::iterator vi(v.begin());
     typename vector<T>::iterator wi = w.begin();
     while(vi != i) *wi++ = *vi++;
     *wi++ = t;
     while(vi != v.end()) *wi++ = *vi++;
     w.swap(v);
   }
   else {
     v.insert(i, t);
   }
}


Both to avoid the default construction and to use the same template
parameters as LeanErase, I'd write it as:

template<typename V>
void LeanInsert(V& v, typename V::iterator i, typename V::value_type
const& t)
{
     if (v.capacity() < v.size() + 1)
     {
         V w;
         w.reserve(v.size() + threshold);

         std::copy(v.begin(), i, std::back_inserter(w));
         w.push_back(t);
         if (i != v.end())
         {
             std::copy(++i, v.end(), std::back_inserter(w));
         }

         w.swap(v);
     }
     else
     {
         v.insert(i, t);
     }
}

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