[Development] QList for Qt 6

[Jason H]

Hey wait, I knew that at one point in time. I've been using Qt since 3.3. I can't keep track of all the magic under the hood. 

I just hope i was right about the rest. And some judge things based off me. I am violently thrown around between Qt, Python, Java, JavaScript projects. It's a miracle that my code works at all.

> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 at 7:08 PM
> From: "NIkolai Marchenko" <enmarantispam at gmail.com>
> To: "Jean-Michaël Celerier" <jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>, "Qt development mailing list" <development at qt-project.org>, "Mutz, Marc" <marc at kdab.com>
> Subject: Re: [Development] QList for Qt 6
>
> 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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