s like
    <code>MyInt</code> or <code>point&lt;&gt;</code>), and the forces
    described above, we decided to change the library interface so that the
    object size bloat could be eliminated even on compilers that support only
    the simplest form of the empty base class optimization. The current
    library interface is the result of those changes. Though the new usage is
    a bit more complicated than the old one, we think it's worth it to make
    the library more useful in real world. Alexy Gurtov