i used to be a big fan of this sort of stuff, but the better solution for many of the problems described is to avoid array resizing. if std::vector is your bot

i used to be a big fan of this sort of stuff, but the better solution for many of the problems described is to avoid array resizing. if std::vector is your bottleneck you have bigger problems i suspect. reminds me a bit of eastl as well... which is much more comprehensive: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2271.html http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...