[Development] Releasing memory after clear() in Qt containers (Qt 5.X)

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 24/04/2021 01:41, Kevin Kofler via Development wrote:
> This particular issue has come up so frequently in the last few weeks that
> this behavior change in Qt 6 sounds like a major design flaw of the Qt 6
> QHash to me. Also because it subtly breaks source compatibility in a way the
> compiler cannot possibly detect, with the worst possible outcome (undefined
> behavior). Only a sophisticated static analysis tool has any chance of
> catching this, if a dedicated check is written.

The tradeoff is a much faster QHash (and much less allocation-intensive) 
  if you're using it for pure storage; OA has some nice performance 
benefits, see the Tessil/ABSL's benchmarks.

In general, try to avoid using the Qt containers if you care about 
algorithmic or behavioural guarantees (and you're not willing to revisit 
and fix the code every now and then, especially in major version 
upgrades). Use them for the convenience APIs. Yes, I know, it's 
tremendously easy to depend on some of these guarantees "by accident" -- 
Hyrum's law is real, after all.

My 2 c,

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