[Interest] The willy-nilly deletion of convenience methods (was: Mixing Commercial and Open...)

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 24 March 2021 07:33:35 PDT Jason H wrote:
> The elephant in the room is that Qt5 QList an QVector can have majorly
> different impacts on memory. A QList<LargeClass> is more tolerant of memory
> fragmentation than QVector<LargeClass> as you need o reallocate a
> contiguous chunk of memory successfully. Where as Qt6 QList would allow
> LargeClass objects to be scattered. This is no longer the case in Qt6.
> You'll be forcing everything into contiguous memory. Which also has impacts
> on performance for systems with virtual memory. Please tell me I'm wrong
> about this?

You're not. That's correct: the contiguous memory of Qt 6 should have better 
performance.

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