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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Dynamic allocation in the predefined language environment
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 22:35:01 +0100
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
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>> Bob Duff <bobduff@theworld.com> writes:
>>
>>> Yes, the predefined containers packages unfortunately don't allow you
>>> to specify the storage pool.
>>
>> An advantage of the Booch Components!
>
> Which works because there is only a single implementation of both the
> specs and bodies. If you don't specify the contents of the bodies,
> specifying the storage pool is nearly useless (the main use would be
> to use some sort of debugging pool), as the only pool implementations
> would have the same properties as the global default storage pool.

Come to think, the time we used this was as the storage pool for
fixed-size objects, pointers to which were held in a bounded container.