Allocator-aware type design

Jonathan Coe

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14:00-15:00, Friday, 5th July 2024

We’ve recently enhanced our two new value types for C++, indirect and polymorphic, with allocator support. Documentation on how to add allocator support is sparse and we wanted to make tacit knowledge explicit and share what we’ve learned from assorted committee experts.

Jonathan Coe

I’m a standing member of the C++ Standards Committee and have been working with C++ for 15 years in a variety of research and commercial environments.

Working with Antony Peacock and Sean Parent I’ve recently added allocator support to two new value type wrappers for C++.