Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk--: G_List quirks

[Guillaume Laurent <glaurent worldnet fr>]

Kevin Handy <kth@srv.net> writes:

> Actually, I believe that most of the STL is written as inline
> functions. It is dependent on the compiler you use if these
> become actual functions, but the STL code seems fairly compact
> anyway.

Not "most", but a large part indeed. Which has nothing to do with
resulting binary size anyway (we tried massive inlining in Gtk-- at
some point, and went back because the lib size had almost doubled).

> One thing that the STL does give you, as opposed to the (void *)
> pointers, is it doesn't have to store the pointer to the data,
> wich saves you 4 bytes (or more) of storage for each node.

I don't see what you mean. You still have to store something in a
node, and if it's not a pointer to an object, it's the object itself
(or a copy), which in 99% of the time is much less efficient.

What the STL gives you is efficient, type-safe, re-useable data
containers, means to explore them, and algorithms to operate on
them.

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					Guillaume.
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