20 General utilities library [utilities]

20.12 Memory resources [mem.res]

20.12.6 Class monotonic_­buffer_­resource [mem.res.monotonic.buffer]

20.12.6.1 General [mem.res.monotonic.buffer.general]

A monotonic_­buffer_­resource is a special-purpose memory resource intended for very fast memory allocations in situations where memory is used to build up a few objects and then is released all at once when the memory resource object is destroyed.
It has the following qualities:
  • A call to deallocate has no effect, thus the amount of memory consumed increases monotonically until the resource is destroyed.
  • The program can supply an initial buffer, which the allocator uses to satisfy memory requests.
  • When the initial buffer (if any) is exhausted, it obtains additional buffers from an upstream memory resource supplied at construction.
    Each additional buffer is larger than the previous one, following a geometric progression.
  • It is intended for access from one thread of control at a time.
    Specifically, calls to allocate and deallocate do not synchronize with one another.
  • It frees the allocated memory on destruction, even if deallocate has not been called for some of the allocated blocks.
namespace std::pmr { class monotonic_buffer_resource : public memory_resource { memory_resource* upstream_rsrc; // exposition only void* current_buffer; // exposition only size_t next_buffer_size; // exposition only public: explicit monotonic_buffer_resource(memory_resource* upstream); monotonic_buffer_resource(size_t initial_size, memory_resource* upstream); monotonic_buffer_resource(void* buffer, size_t buffer_size, memory_resource* upstream); monotonic_buffer_resource() : monotonic_buffer_resource(get_default_resource()) {} explicit monotonic_buffer_resource(size_t initial_size) : monotonic_buffer_resource(initial_size, get_default_resource()) {} monotonic_buffer_resource(void* buffer, size_t buffer_size) : monotonic_buffer_resource(buffer, buffer_size, get_default_resource()) {} monotonic_buffer_resource(const monotonic_buffer_resource&) = delete; virtual ~monotonic_buffer_resource(); monotonic_buffer_resource& operator=(const monotonic_buffer_resource&) = delete; void release(); memory_resource* upstream_resource() const; protected: void* do_allocate(size_t bytes, size_t alignment) override; void do_deallocate(void* p, size_t bytes, size_t alignment) override; bool do_is_equal(const memory_resource& other) const noexcept override; }; }