> So what you usually do here is have a pointer and a VTable and all that jazz. But there's been a resurgence in interest in putting data into contiguous blocks

> So what you usually do here is have a pointer and a VTable and all that jazz. But there's been a resurgence in interest in putting data into contiguous blocks of memory. Check up on data driven design. in particular, boost.polycollection is a nice implementation of heterogeneous vectors: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/doc/html/poly_collection.html http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/doc/html/poly_collecti...