Re: [boost] [variant] address of a variant type from the address ofitssub-object?

Andrzej Krzemienski wrote:

But, I am trying to optimize a function that I believe is slower than ideal, and my hypothesis is that this carrying of the additional pointer around is the culprit.

That's hard to believe. Copying a pointer should be insignificant compared to the cost of the dispatch. What does the profiler say? You should probably spell out the apply_visitor() call by hand inline; in addition to eliminating the pointer copy, this would allow you to experiment with, say, reordering the tests from most frequent to least frequent.