[Development] QList for Qt 6

[Konstantin Tokarev]

22.05.2019, 19:38, "Philippe" <philwave at gmail.com>:
>>  People tend to use QList as a deque because of the fast prepend/take first
>
> Simply, QArrayList should not be deprecated.
> It is also useful to store large objects that needs to be sorted.

In the latter QList can be replaced with std::vector<std::unique_ptr<T>> or QVector<std::unique_ptr<T>>

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> Philippe
>
> On Wed, 22 May 2019 18:25:18 +0200
> ???? ?????????? <abbapoh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  4. Use QVector to implement QList<Foo>, if sizeof(Foo) <= sizeof(quint64) and Foo is movable
>>
>>  What about fast prepend in that case? People tend to use QList as a deque because of the fast prepend/take first
>>
>>  ???? ??????????
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>>  22 ??? 2019 ?., ? 15:49, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> ???????(?):
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>>  Let’s conclude the topic of QList. I do see the concern about silent source breakages. Here’s what we’ll (I’ll) do then for Qt 6:
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>>   1. Rename QList to QArrayList and make QList an alias to QArrayList
>>   2. Move QStringList and QByteArrayList over to inherit from QVector (that should be source compatible)
>>   3. Rename QStringList to QStringVector (keep QStringList as a compatibility name), same for QBAList
>>   4. Use QVector to implement QList<Foo>, if sizeof(Foo) <= sizeof(quint64) and Foo is movable. I’m intentionally not using sizeof(void *) here, as types with sizes between 4 and 8 bytes would not have stable references in cross platform code, so I do not believe lots of code would assume that (or it would have broken on 64 bit).
>>   5. Add a compile time switch that allows mapping QList completely to QVector or to a compatibility mode where QLists of large/non movable types are mapped to QArrayList
>>   6. For now we don’t yet want to explicitly change all our API that uses QList to use QVector (as that would make merging from dev a pain, let’s do that later this year). But to test that everything we have works with QVector, we’ll set the compile switch to default to mapping to QVector.
>>   7. Make the implementation of QArrayList fully inline and deprecate the class.
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>>   Let me know if there are any major concerns with this plan. It should give us a good compromise, where we can move all of Qt over to QVector and test things early, as well as providing a compatibility mode for our users (slower but won’t silently break).
>>
>>   Cheers,
>>   Lars
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>>   On 21 May 2019, at 10:38, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
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>>  Il 21/05/19 10:30, Konstantin Shegunov ha scritto:
>>  That's a hard one. Especially since very few could keep in their brain a list of the sizes of each and every one class from Qt. It also differs depending on architecture.
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>>  I know. That's my point: we can't just break this level of source compatibility.
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>>  Thanks,
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