[Development] Qt6 source changes
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Nov 2 03:18:11 CET 2018
Thiago Macieira wrote:
> We're studying what to do with QList, but the idea is that the name
> "QList" will be completely ok and identical to QVector. The technical
> mechanism is in flux.
That means you will be pessimizing element inserts and removals from O(n) to
O(mn), where n is the length of the list and m the size of each element,
without offering a good alternative without that pessimization (sure, you
can use a QVector<T*> or QVector<SomeSmartPointer<T>>, but those have
somewhat different semantics and less convenient syntax).
It won't make a difference for implicitly-shared objects (but QList already
works like a vector for those anyway), but for large in-place objects, it
can make a big difference.
Kevin Kofler
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