[Development] Question about QCoreApplicationData::*_libpaths

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 05 January 2016 15:37:51 Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 January 2016 12:56:55 Ulf Hermann wrote:
> > avoid paying the price of constructing a QStringList if they are unused.
> 
> That's what I was wondering about: constructing a QStringList is just a copy
> of a pointer, and while not totally free, it is next to nothing compared to
> the additional heap allocation of a new'ed QStringList...

It's still a good enough trade-off, considering we'd need to keep a bool 
elsewhere.

> (we need std::optional :)

Aye.

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