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Jeff Trull authored
std::shared_ptr provides a limited amount of type erasure natively based on void* and the fact that it stores the original type in the deleter. As a result, if you know the original type, you can call std::static_pointer_cast and recover a legitimate shared_ptr of the right type, very efficiently. It looks like the use of boost::any in this code is: 1) to hide the pointed-to type so a uniform container can be used 2) to represent "no pointer" both of which can be handled natively by shared_ptr<void> with a small performance gain from removing one indirection.
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