[Development] QList for Qt 6

[NIkolai Marchenko]

This rather nicely proves my point. Jason isn't even new to this list and
he didn't realize the problems.
No, community as a whole did _not _ have "years and years" to port away
from QList

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 6:07 PM Jean-Michaël Celerier <
jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com> wrote:

> > QList is just a linked list
>
> you're in for a rude awakening :-) https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qlist.html
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 5:03 PM Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > Ok, QList as an alias for QVector takes care of the technical issues I
>> > have with using inheritance. It doesn't address my concerns regarding
>> > breaking QList behaviour. What purpose is served to call something QList
>> > that is in fact a QVector? Please spell it out for me, as I don't see
>> > it.
>>
>> My understanding is that QVector requires contiguous memory, consuming a
>> giant block for all the items in the list. QList is just a linked list.
>> QVector will fail sooner when memory fragmentation is a problem. I would
>> expect systems with long-running processes and limited RAM (i.e. embedded,
>> a Raspberry Pi, phone, etc) to encounter this sooner than other systems,
>> especially when the size of each object is large. (You could always just
>> store pointers though)
>>
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