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From: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Length of C++ arrays allocated by operator new[]
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:38:13 +1200
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On 08/22/11 11:04 AM, Leigh Johnston wrote:
> On 21/08/2011 23:01, Marcel Müller wrote:
>> On 21.08.11 23.32, Leigh Johnston wrote:
>>>
>>> Template code bloat is mostly over stated; non-template classes with
>>> lots of inline functions can have similar "bloat".
>>
>> That's not what I mean. The most bloat comes from different
>> instantiations of template classes that in fact produce binary the same
>> code. E.g. std::vector will most likely result in identical code for all
>> pointer types (except for member function pointers, of course).
>>
>> At least I have not seen a compiler that can share code between
>> different template instantiations.
>
> That is the price you pay for not having to lose type information
> however you can have a std::vector<void*>  if you want.  Template bloat
> is less of a concern these days due to increased memory and storage
> capacities even on smaller devices such as mobile phones.

You don't even gave to loose type safety if you specialise vector for 
void* and derive privately from there.

-- 
Ian Collins