Re: noverlay branch

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>> to allow C++.  With std::multimap/std::multiset, we would have a
>>> ready-made complete solution for the tree, tested by a gazillion of
>>> users.  Just dreaming :-))
>>
>> I'm not familiar with C++ libs: does this `multiset` lib offer something
>> similar to the lazy update of buffer positions that Andreas's code uses
>> (via the `offset` field together with the `interval_tree_inherit_offset`
>> function)?
>
> No, just the tree-part, or better said not the tree directly.  These
> implement an abstraction of an ordered set, or multiset (containing an
> element more than once), or map of (key, value) pairs, or multimap
> (multiple (key, value) pairs with the same key.

Then I don't see how it would be a "ready-made complete solution"
because it doesn't seem easy to make such updates lazily "from the
outside".


        Stefan