[Development] Important recent changes in QList/QString/QByteArray

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 10/09/20 04:31, Thiago Macieira ha scritto:
>> This is another against automatic shrinking; it may invalidate
>> everything rather than just the erased area. I don't understand the
>> "detach" part, is it about holding references across a detach, so they
>> refer to the original container, not the detached one? That's not
>> different from we always had, isn't it?
> It means that if you try to erase from a container that is currently shared,
> it will detach. When it does, the detached container's size will be evaluated
> in terms of the size of the container, not the capacity the shared container
> had.
> 

Why isn't the capacity carried across?
> 
> QVector<Foo> v;
> v.reserve(100);
> v.push_back(~~~); // fill it up
> 
> // someone takes a copy
> auto v2 = v;
> 
> // erase into the original
> v.erase(~~~); 
> 
> // now v's capacity is no longer reserved to be >= 100?

My 2 c,

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