[Development] Dropping QT_NO_STL (was: The future of QtAlgorithms)

[João Abecasis]

On 30. jan. 2012, at 23.03, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Monday, 30 de January de 2012 18.38.56, João Abecasis wrote:
>> On 30. jan. 2012, at 17.25, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> My point here and below with "the containers themselves" is that we don't
>>> want to use those containers in our code nor in our API.
>> 
>> What's wrong with using them in our code, as long as they stay out of the
>> API/ABI?
>> 
>> std::vector is perfectly fine for a non-shared dynamically allocated array.
> 
> I'd like our containers to be good enough for that, to be honest. And avoid 
> subtle mistakes if the behaviour differs.
> 
> But where it makes sense, sure. Roberto used STL in the his C++ parser. 
> 
> Just avoid "template bloat": out-of-line copies of identical code because the 
> compiler can't figure out two functions do the same. It's hard to measure.

Fair point.


João