From: Warren Young
Date: December 2 2005 6:33pm
Subject: Re: packarray template class - version 0.1
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Chris Frey wrote:
>>It'd also be nice if you could mass-convert the entire array at once.
> 
> Can you expound on that?  Not sure what you mean.

It appears that data is stored in the array in "network order", and data 
is converted appropriately when data goes into the array and when it 
comes out.  If so, my concern is of the efficiency hit.

I suppose I'm asking if the container could be made to operate in two 
modes internally: data stored in network order, and data stored in host 
order.  If you know you will be doing a lot of munching on, say, a big 
double_pack array, you might lock it down to host order before entering 
the processing loop to speed it up.  You could add a boolean flag to 
indicate the state of the data, and use that to decide whether to skip 
the call to the traits object to do any conversions.