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Lecture 04—Template Patterns I Chase Geigle Announcements Template Specialization Partial Template Specialization Template Template Parameters Next Time Original Implementation #include template class vector { public: // purposefully not doing reference here... T operator[]( size_t i ) { return data_[ i ]; } // other things private: T * data_; }; If T = bool, we are wasting an entire byte on that boolean value (which can, in theory, be represented as a single bit) We want to special case, or specialize on T = bool to change the default behavior of the class!
Lecture 04—Template Patterns I Chase Geigle Announcements Template Specialization Partial Template Specialization Template Template Parameters Next Time Template Specialization Definition (Template Specialization) Template Specialization is a mechanism by which the behavior of a template class or function is completely replaced with something else, based on a condition on one or more template parameters.
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