[Development] HEADS UP: Don't use QList, use Q_DECLARE_TYPEINFO

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 21 July 2015 02:26:41 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> For the implicitly shared data types, QList actually does NOT add another 
> layer of indirection (as documented: "If T is itself a pointer type or a 
> basic type that is no larger than a pointer, or if T is one of Qt's shared 
> classes, then QList<T> stores the items directly in the pointer array."),
> so  in that case, it is almost the same as QVector, except that it allows
> prepending items much more efficiently (O(1) in many cases, whereas it's
> always O(n) in QVector).

Except if the type is larger than sizeof(void*), like QVariant is.

Or like QString and QByteArray will be in Qt 6.
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