TECH: STL / Heaps, etc. (was: [MUD-Dev] TECH DGN: a few mudse rver design questions (long))

[Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Nixon [mailto:tnixon at avalanchesoftware.com]

> I used to really like STL.
 
> Now I really hate it.
 
> I would really like it again if it really was STL, and maybe someday
> it will be.  Right now its mostly ASTL, though.  (Almost-Standard
> template library)
 
> Actually, it may just be Microsoft's implementation that is ASTL.
> That wouldn't surprise me.  All I know is that using STL has
> caused me some major headaches in code that needs to run across
> Windows, Playstation2 (using 2 different compilers), and Gamecube.
> So many headaches that we have to get rid of it altogether.  It's
> a shame, really.

Take a look at STLPort. Its more compliant, and orders of magnitude
faster on some operations (strings are about 5 times faster I
believe). It also drops into DevStudio without any trouble. Its also
properly cross platform I believe so it should be easily portable -
which is nice when you see how MS had to fudge to get locales
working properly (*ahem* macros).

I think it might restore your faith.

Dan

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