Re: Alpha release!

[Hary Walsh <hwalsh@tellabs.ie>]

>>>>> "Kasper" == Kasper Peeters <t16@nikhef.nl> writes:

    Kasper> At this point, I would again like to make a strong
    Kasper> recommendation in favour of the standard library,
    Kasper> especially since g++ now has a good implementation of
    Kasper> 'string' and handles the basic STL containers ('vector',
    Kasper> 'list' and so on) very well.


Warning about STL.  In situations where many STL containers are
needed, it is customary to set a more granular preallocaiton buffer
size.  This reduces memory wastage considerably.  However in the C++
draft the methods for manipluating allocator sizes have been removed.

I personally feel that STL is not necessary.  We should be able to
short list the containers we need ( vector, map, pair, string ) and implement
them ourselves.  If portability is an issue, we can keep the interface
of STL.