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diff --git a/o3tl/README.md b/o3tl/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dccfc6028 --- /dev/null +++ b/o3tl/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +# LibreOffice Template Library + +Very basic template functionality, a bit like boost or STL, but specific to LibreOffice. + +o3tl stands for "OOo [o3, get it?] template library", in which OOo stands for OpenOffice.org, +predecessor of LibreOffice. + +From <https://blog.thebehrens.net/2006/01/15/update-cow_wrapper-is-available-now/> +The scope for o3tl is admittedly kind of ambitious, as it should contain "...very basic (template) +functionality, comparable to what's provided by boost or stl, but specific to OOo (what comes to mind +are e.g. STL adapters for our own data types and UNO, and stuff that could in principle be upstreamed +to boost, but isn't as of now)." + +## Class Overview + +- `[git:include/o3tl/cow_wrapper.hxx]` + + A copy-on-write wrapper. + +- `[git:include/o3tl/lazy_update.hxx]` + + This template collects data in input type, and updates the output type with the given update functor, + but only if the output is requested. Useful if updating is expensive, or input changes frequently, but + output is only comparatively seldom used. + +- `[git:include/o3tl/vector_pool.hxx]` + + Simple vector-based memory pool allocator. + +- `[git:include/o3tl/functional.hxx]` + + Some more templates, leftovers in spirit of STLport's old functional + header that are not part of the C++ standard (STLport has been + replaced by direct use of the C++ STL in LibreOffice). |