I would like to share the article that was behind the paywall (see the attached pdf file).

However, you're right about the implementation changes for std::vector<bool> that occurred since the release of the article.

22 févr. 2021 à 18:26 de std-proposals_at_[hidden]:

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> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 8:30 AM Jason McKesson via Std-Proposals <> std-proposals_at_[hidden]> > wrote:
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>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 7:39 AM Shipurian via Std-Proposals
>> <>> std-proposals_at_[hidden]>> > wrote:
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>> > Many algorithmic problems and low-level programming rely on a binary solution (TSP, Knapsack problem, etc). Despite the existence of std::bitset<N>, a fixed-size container for manipulating the bits. There is no other way than using a std::vector<bool> to deal with dynamic bit vectors.
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>> > However, using std::vector<bool> is really slow compared to other solutions : >> https://doi.org/10.1145/1899503.1899530>> .
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>> The article you have linked to is behind a paywall, so it's not easy
>> to figure out what the methodology was for determining code
>> performance. Equally importantly, without the paper, we can't tell
>> whether this is an artifact of the implementations (ie: could
>> `vector<bool>` be better) or a requirement due to the interface needs
>> of `vector<bool>`.
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>> Also, it's been 10 years since that paper was published. How much has
>> changed in that time in terms of implementations.
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> I don't know what the linked article is about, but here's a public one from Howard Hinnant: > https://isocpp.org/blog/2012/11/on-vectorbool> , with lots of numbers.
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>> > Hence, I would like to propose to implement the boost::dynamic_bitset to work with dynamic binary vectors and use them in dedicated heuristics or in regular problems.
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>> That having been said, having a dynamic_bitset would move us a step
>> along the path of removing `vector<bool>` entirely, so long as the
>> interface is a good replacement for it (not needing much if any
>> changes to existing code besides what type gets used).
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