Re: [Boost-users] large variant performance compared (50 elements)

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If it's really just shared_ptr's in the variant, I would seriously consider replacing it with shared_ptr<void> (with a type tag if necessary).  Just a thought.

Seriously, could be a big simplification and speedup vs. using using variant.

Could you please elaborate a bit on this? How to replace variant with shared_ptr<void> and a tag? Wouldn't the tags be wrapped in a variant anyway? Thanks.